· Private foundation
The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $605k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $600,000 |
| REHAB HOSPITAL OF THE PACIFIC FOUND | $500,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE | $400,000 |
| THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER | $400,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $350,000 |
| UH FOUNDATION ATHLETIC CENTER | $250,000 |
| ADVENTIST HEALTH | $250,000 |
| PARKER SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| KKV FAMILY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE | $100,000 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MAUI | $100,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PSPUNAHOU SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +40%
- HPHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +13%
- SFStraub Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +152%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEARTS ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $333k
- FOFRIENDS OF HAWAII LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- KKKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…
The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…
To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.
Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
The mission of hawai'i public radio is to serve the people of hawai'i by informing with essential news, inspiring through the power of music and the arts, and connecting through conversations and convenings.
Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Programs Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is The Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 123 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KUPU ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MARYKNOLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds ISLAND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds ADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
- Who funds KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds J WALTER CAMERON CENTER ↗
- Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LE JARDIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
- Who funds LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · J Watumull Fund · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Cooke Foundation Limited · McInerny Foundation-- · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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