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Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation

The foundation is built on a family discovered experience through the game of golf. It aims to empower and inspire youth and their families to discover, develop, and achieve the best of their gifts and talents through the game of golf, educational funding, and core family values.

$525k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$371k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$136,369
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$371k43%
FY20235$185k60%
FY20224$81k75%
FY20211$22k0%
FY20202$30k100%
FY20182$19k100%
FY20171$16kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$348kPublic Safety & Disaster$218kFood & Nutrition$94kHealth$45kRecreation & Sports$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Granite Education Foundation$251,36923%
For the Kids Org$131,53958%
Aha Punana Leo$60,00011%
Hua Momona Foundation$60,00014%
Kids Hurt Too Hawaii$60,00019%
Best Seat in the House$50,000227%
Tony Mapu Memorial Foundation$20,000123%
Walking for Kids Foundation$20,00023%
Salt Lake Education Foundation$17,00050%
Recovery Group$10,00016%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Granite Education Foundation$251,36923%
For the Kids Org$131,53958%
Aha Punana Leo$60,00011%
Hua Momona Foundation$60,00014%
Kids Hurt Too Hawaii$60,00019%
Best Seat in the House$50,000227%
Tony Mapu Memorial Foundation$20,000123%
Walking for Kids Foundation$20,00023%
Salt Lake Education Foundation$17,00050%
Recovery Group$10,00016%
American Junior Golf Association Inc$10,00010%
Nebo Education Foundation$10,00014%
Aloha Shriners$8,86712%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGranite Education Foundation: $251,369 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFor the Kids Org: $131,539 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetAha Punana Leo: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHua Momona Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetKids Hurt Too Hawaii: $60,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBest Seat in the House: $50,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTony Mapu Memorial Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetWalking for Kids Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $17,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRecovery Group: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNebo Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAloha Shriners: $8,867 over 1y, 2.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation

How much does Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation give?
Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $371,369, out of $525,120 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Public Safety & Disaster (30%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Granite Education Foundation ($251k), For the Kids Org ($132k), Aha Punana Leo ($60k).
Does Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah.
Where is Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation based?
Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation is based in UT.

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 14 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 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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