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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.

$525k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $371,369, the rows itemized in this filing. The $525,120 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $153,751 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $316k
$60,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$136,369
KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII$60,000
AHA PUNANA LEO$60,000
HUA MOMONA FOUNDATION$60,000
FOR THE KIDS$38,000
WALKING FOR KIDS$10,000
SALT LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$7,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HUA MOMONA FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII: $60k → 9%AHA PUNANA LEO: $60k → 15%TONY MAPU FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%SALT LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%NEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%AJGA: $10k → 7%WALKING FOR KIDS: $10k → 24%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $16k → 9%SALT LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%WALKING FOR KIDS: $10k → 24%Shriners Hospital: $9k → 9%FOR THE KIDS: $38k → 8%FOR THE KIDS: $26k → 8%FOR THE KIDS: $25k → 8%FOR THE KIDS: $22k → 8%FOR THE KIDS: $20k → 8%Good Time Golf: $10k → 8%BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE: $25k → 8%BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE: $25k → 8%GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $136k → 8%GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $115k → 8%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$470k · 5 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$470k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyFood & NutritionHealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • GE
    Granite Education Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $251k · revenue +47%
  • FT
    FOR THE KIDS ORG
    5× · 2020–2024 · $132k · revenue +4%
  • BS
    Best Seat in the House
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +52% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • TM
    TONY MAPU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • RG
    RECOVERY GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +5%
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
Haloti Ngata Family Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Aloha Foundation
—
3
The Ohana Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Utah Prep Kokua Foundation

To provide athletic and academic opportunities for underprivileged youth.

Youth Development
5
The Watson Youth Golf Foundation
Recreation & Sports
6
Utah Pga Junior Golf Foundation

To foster regional, national, and international junior golf competition. in addition, we focus on introductory and recreational in school and junior golf programs.

Recreation & Sports
7
Park City Education Foundation

Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.

Education
8
Hollywood Golf Club Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Mormon Scholars Foundation
Education
10
Hoomahua Foundation

To support education primarily in the Waianae community on the island of Oahu. Support may included, but not be limited to, professional development, student support services, and community engagement. As educators on the Waianae coast,…

Education
11
The Utah Scholarship Foundation

To provide scholarships for Utah residents between the ages of 18 and 28 who have graduated from high school and are seeking additional educational opportunities.

Education
12
Harmon Family Foundation (Fka the Claude Harmon Foundation)
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aloha Shriners; the most unlike its peers is Hua Momona Foundation. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Granite Education Foundation: $251,369 · EducationGranite Education FoundationFOR THE KIDS ORG: $131,539 · Food & NutritionFOR THE KIDS ORGHUA MOMONA FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Food & NutritionHUA MOMONA FOUNDATIONBest Seat in the House: $50,000 · OtherBest Seat i…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $16,185 · OtherSHRINERS HO…ALOHA SHRINERS: $8,867 · OtherALOHA SHRIN…KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII: $60,000 · HealthKIDS HURT …RECOVERY GROUP: $10,000 · HealthRECOVERY G…TONY MAPU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTONY MAPU …WALKING FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyWALKING FO…Salt Lake Education Foundation: $17,000 · PhilanthropySalt Lake …NEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNEBO EDUCA…AHA PUNANA LEO: $60,000 · Arts & CultureAHA PUNAN…American Junior Golf Association Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$251,369Food & Nutrition$191,539Other$75,052Health$70,000Philanthropy$67,000Arts & Culture$60,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

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
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.

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 Found…Kennecott Utah Copper…The Community Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth 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 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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