· Public charity
University of the Nations Kona Inc
To educate and equip young people from all nations in spirituality, integrity, personal life skills, and business skills to be multiplied around the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $745,891 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,030,614 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,284,723 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
- $250k+1 grant · $346k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWAM-LOS ANGELES | $346,291 |
| CRISIS CONSULTING INTERNATIONAL | $147,050 |
| YWAM SHIPS KONA | $113,421 |
| 42220 FOUNDATION | $29,900 |
| NEMA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOLOS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| HUI O HANOHANA | $16,269 |
| COMMISSION COACHING | $15,000 |
| JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| PHOTOGENX INTERNATIONAL | $9,781 |
| EXODUS CRY | $8,179 |
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 (FY18–25, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.2M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $1.2M to organizations and $48k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: YWAM MINISTRY
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of University of the Nations Kona Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- TTheSend5× · 2018–2022 · $431k · revenue +50%
- SISummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global2× · 2018–2019 · $94k · revenue +54%
- CLCRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES2× · 2021–2022 · $47k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- WOWORLDWIDE OUTREACH FOR CHRISTone grant, 2021 · $74k
- AMANTIOCH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $74k
- YWYOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJAone grant, 2020 · $65k
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.
Supporing missionaries worldwide
Training pastors in third world countries
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To help fulfill the great commission as found in Matthew 28:19-20, the equipping of God's people for works of service, particularly in Papua New Guinea.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
Religious
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Shine exists to proclaim Jesus Christ to all lost peoples around the world, to mobilize the local church to embrace the Great Commission, and to equip the present and next generation of leaders in their spiritual quest and service to God…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth With a Mission - San Diegobaja and the most unlike its peers is CoLink. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 39 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.
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- Who funds HUI O HANOHANO ↗
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- Who funds CRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE 4220 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION-SLAVIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AHUALANI ↗
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- Who funds IRIS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds CoLink ↗
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- Who funds JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL ↗
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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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Ahualani · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · GiveClear Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable 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 University of the Nations Kona Inc 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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