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· 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$346k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$3.0MInternational$750kPhilanthropy$485kCommunity Improvement$38k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $745,891, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,030,614 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,284,723 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
  • $250k+1 grant · $346k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL$15,000
COMMISSION COACHING$15,000
PHOTOGENX INTERNATIONAL$9,781
EXODUS CRY$8,179
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YWAM NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $7k → 16%CRISIS CONSULTING INTERNATIONAL: $147k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
OR
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
AR
TN
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

Region not stated$1.2M · 96% · 13 grants

Stated purpose: YWAM MINISTRY

East Asia and the Pacific$15k · 1% · 12 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

South America$14k · 1% · 5 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$6k · 0% · 7 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

South Asia$5k · 0% · 3 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

Sub-Saharan Africa$4k · 0% · 5 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$4k · 0% · 5 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

Middle East and North Africa$2k · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS

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. 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of University of the Nations Kona Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

University of the Nations Kona Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 12 repeat orgs$693k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
21

Total granted

$3.0M
$502k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+40%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth 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

  • T
    TheSend
    5× · 2018–2022 · $431k · revenue +50%
  • SI
    Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global
    2× · 2018–2019 · $94k · revenue +44%
  • CL
    CRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $47k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • WO
    WORLDWIDE OUTREACH FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2021 · $74k
  • AM
    ANTIOCH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $74k
  • YW
    YOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA
    one grant, 2020 · $65k
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
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
2
Pacific Island Ministries

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.

International
3
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
4
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
5
Heart Bridge International

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…

Religion
6
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
7
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
8
Korean World Mission Council
Religion
9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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10
Shine in the World Ministries

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
11
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
12
Youth With a Mission-Maui Inc

Train christian missionaries to spread the gospel.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth With a Mission - San Diegobaja; 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.
05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 39 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Interest Ministries: $569,306 · ReligionInterest MinistriesTheSend: $431,151 · ReligionTheSendYOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA: $65,231 · ReligionYWAM Fire and Fragrance Nashville: $50,004 · ReligionCRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES: $46,880 · Religion+6 more: $111,536 · Religion+6 moreYWAM-LOS ANGELES: $949,742 · OtherYWAM-LOS ANGELESYOUTH WITH A MISSION: $109,280 · OtherYOUTH WITH A MISSIONWORLDWIDE OUTREACH FOR CHRIST: $74,222 · OtherWORLDWIDE OUTREACH FOR CHRISTANTIOCH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $73,825 · OtherANTIOCH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL+7 more: $78,951 · Other+7 moreYWAM Ships Orange County: $438,918 · InternationalYWAM Ships Orange CountyKAIROS GLOBAL INC: $241,536 · InternationalKAIROS GLOBAL INCSummer Institute of Linguistics Inc dba SIL Global: $94,182 · InternationalSummer Institute of Ling…YOUTH WITH A MISSION-SLAVIC MINISTRIES: $30,500 · International+7 more: $105,857 · International+7 moreNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $485,327 · PhilanthropyNEMA FOUNDATION…NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN …Crisis Consulting International: $147,050 · Human ServicesYOUTH WITH A MISSION NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $6,980 · Human ServicesHUI O HANOHANO: $60,877 · Community ImprovementAHUALANI: $24,200 · Youth Development
Religion$1,274,108Other$1,286,020International$910,993Philanthropy$575,327Human Services$154,030Community Improvement$60,877Youth Development$24,200

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 budgetInterest Ministries: $569,306 over 2y, 23% of budgetNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $485,327 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetYWAM Ships Orange County: $438,918 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTheSend: $431,151 over 5y, 11% of budgetKAIROS GLOBAL INC: $241,536 over 2y, 15% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUI O HANOHANO: $60,877 over 5y, 49% of budgetYWAM Fire and Fragrance Nashville: $50,004 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES: $46,880 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE 4220 FOUNDATION INC: $42,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION-SLAVIC MINISTRIES: $30,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAHUALANI: $24,200 over 1y, 29% of budgetUnited For The Least: $22,648 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetS4CA INC: $20,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIRIS GLOBAL: $19,781 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCoLink: $18,225 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSPORTS EXCELLENCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $17,100 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHEART FOR GOD: $14,100 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION COSTA RICA: $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOne Love Initiative dba Circuit Riders: $8,765 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $6,980 over 1y, 4.8% 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.

Servant FoundationChristian Community F…AhualaniNatl Christian Charit…GiveClear FoundationChattanooga Christian…The Signatry Charitab…The US Charitable Gif…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…
Servant FoundationKS24.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 University of the Nations Kona Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of the Nations Kona Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 University of the Nations Kona Inc?

    Find your warmest path to University of the Nations Kona Inc 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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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