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EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION

EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,731,190 to it, the largest being THE FREEMAN FOUNDATION ($576,150). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.1M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$23M
10/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What East-West Center Foundation does

Mission

The primary purpose of the organization is to broaden the financial support of the center for cultural & technical interchange between east & west, inc. (east-west center) a public educational non-profit corporation. The east-west center located at 1601 east-west road, honolulu, hi 96848 is a national educational institution created pursuant to public law 86-472 enacted by the u.s. Congress. The funds provided to the east-west center are used to promote better relations and understanding between the united states and nations of the asia pacific through cooperative study, training and research.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grants to the east-west center are used to promote security, stability, and prosperity in america's indo-pacific backyard through policy engagement, influential networks, high-level convenings, and extensive partnerships. (77 grants)

    $1,709,263 spentof which $1,709,263 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,709,263.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($820k) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 22 ($849k) Expenses 112 ($919k) Net assets 103 ($15M)2019 Revenue 33 ($1.3M) Expenses 114 ($935k) Net assets 105 ($15M)2020 Revenue 25 ($944k) Expenses 196 ($1.6M) Net assets 108 ($15M)2021 Revenue 39 ($1.5M) Expenses 83 ($678k) Net assets 132 ($19M)2022 Revenue 28 ($1.1M) Expenses 163 ($1.3M) Net assets 105 ($15M)2023 Revenue 53 ($2.0M) Expenses 110 ($900k) Net assets 125 ($18M)2024 Revenue 47 ($1.8M) Expenses 155 ($1.3M) Net assets 158 ($22M)2025 Revenue 82 ($3.1M) Expenses 228 ($1.9M) Net assets 166 ($23M)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (228)Net assets (166)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $18M to $23M (+30%).

$14M
$15M
$15M
$16M
$19M
$15M
$18M
$23M
$24M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

51% of EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.0M
’17
−$70k
’18
$316k
’19
−$665k
’20
$809k
’21
−$259k
’22
$1.1M
’23
$514k
’24
$1.3M
’25
2.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed332927232321252123
Joined·+1+4+4+4+20+7+2+6
No longer listed·568422364
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $92k → $439k.

5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION.

33%
largest funder
64%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 68% · 2019 37% · 2020 43% · 2021 67% · 2022 53% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

17% of EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

57% of EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

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CA
DE
HI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Hawaii

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 2%Fundraising 6%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Betw · exempt
  • The East-West Center Trust · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION?
EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,731,190 to it, the largest being THE FREEMAN FOUNDATION ($576,150). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,731,190 in grants to EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION?
THE FREEMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $576,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing