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The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation at a glance

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The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$11MEducation$9.3MArts & Culture$2.7MYouth Development$1.9MRecreation & Sports$700kHuman Services$565kFood & Nutrition$515kCrime & Legal$315kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $605k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.3M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$132M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$100,000
FOUNDATION OF MARYKNOLL SCHOOL$100,000
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MAUI$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE: $20k → 15%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 9%HALE KIPA: $250k → 9%HALE KIPA: $250k → 9%WEST HAWAII MEDIATION CENTER: $10k → 15%HALE KIPA: $250k → 9%HALE KIPA: $250k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $25k → 9%ALOHA DIAPER BANK: $10k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $25k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 39 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
43

Total granted

$25M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+27%

Still filing today

77%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +40%
  • HP
    HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +13%
  • SF
    Straub Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEARTS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $333k
  • UF
    UH FOOTBALL PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HAWAII LIBRARY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
Papahana Kuaola

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,…

Environment
5
Kukio Hoomana Fund

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…

Philanthropy
6
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

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.

Community Improvement
7
Hawaii Education Institute
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8
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

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…

Health
9
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Hawaii Public Radio

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.

—
11
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
12
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Programs Hawaii; 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.
04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
51/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $4,500,000 · OtherSAINT LOUIS SCHOOLREHAB HOSPITAL OF THE PACIFIC FOUND: $2,500,000 · OtherREHAB HOSPITAL OF THE PACIFIC FOUNDST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE: $2,050,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HEALTHCAREUH FOUNDATION ATHLETIC CENTER: $500,000 · Other+72 more: $4,475,935 · Other+72 moreStraub Foundation: $2,000,000 · HealthStraub FoundationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,750,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIE…THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $1,205,000 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL C…+5 more: $266,667 · HealthPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $2,400,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $900,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HA…PARKER SCHOOL: $400,000 · EducationPARKER SCHOOLISLAND SCHOOL: $200,000 · Education+4 more: $70,000 · EducationHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PU…HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreHALE KIPA INC: $1,000,000 · Human Services+10 more: $175,000 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentKUPU: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH: $121,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND: $65,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentALOHA HARVEST: $105,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$14,025,935Health$5,221,667Education$3,970,000Arts & Culture$2,250,000Human Services$1,175,000Youth Development$996,000Food & Nutrition$375,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $2,400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $2,000,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetStraub Foundation: $2,000,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,750,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $1,205,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $500,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPARKER SCHOOL: $400,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $400,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetKUPU: $300,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBLOOD BANK OF HAWAII: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MARYKNOLL SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH: $121,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $105,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetLE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJ WALTER CAMERON CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $66,667 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND: $65,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetKIDS HURT TOO HAWAII: $60,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI: $59,100 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKAKOO OIWI: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKUKUI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER: $49,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII LITERACY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE LEGAL CLINIC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOA AINA O MAKAHA: $30,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBOBBY BENSON CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMALAMA KAUAI: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MARYKNOLL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds ADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LE JARDIN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds J WALTER CAMERON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Atherton Family Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…J Watumull FundFirst Hawaiian Bank F…Aloha United Way IncCooke Foundation Limi…McInerny Foundation--Central Pacific Bank …Tradewind Group Found…First Insurance Compa…Kosasa FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…
Atherton Family FoundationHI90.8× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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