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Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement

The COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT (cnha) is a member-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to enhance the cultural, economic, political, and community development of native hawaiians.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
157
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$402k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEnvironment$846kCommunity Improvement$838kPublic Safety & Disaster$360kHousing & Shelter$250kEducation$244kHuman Services$214kOther$0
02FY2025 · 157 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 157 grants below total $6,000,433, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,486,805 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,486,372 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 $10k16 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k100 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k40 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $402k
$23,987
Median grant
4
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII STAGE EVENT PRODUCTION COMPANY$402,000
ESPN PRODUCTIONS INC$175,000
POLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME$155,000
GRAVITAS PASIFIKA LLC$150,000
ALOHA FESTIVALS$130,000
THE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL$125,000
KUPU$120,000
KAHULI LEO LEA$117,000
KALA FOUNDATION$115,500
OAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION HAWAII$100,000
HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION$100,000
PUUHONUA SOCIETY$97,167
HIIPAKA LLC$96,000
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST$93,000
HONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$90,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF HILO: $30k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $30k → 15%ARTS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN GROUP: $14k → 9%ARTS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN GROUP: $6k → 9%KAHUMANA COMMUNITY CENTER: $63k → 9%KAHUMANA ORGANIC FARMS: $19k → 9%KUALOA-HE'EIA ECUNEMICAL YOUTH (KEY) PROJECT: $18k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $67k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $30k → 9%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 104 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

104 repeat relationships: 100 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
63

Total granted

$9.4M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

81%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PF
    POLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
    2× · 2024–2025 · $310k · revenue ×14
  • OH
    OAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION HAWAII
    2× · 2024–2025 · $265k · revenue +8%
  • MO
    MAKANA O KE AKUA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • EM
    EKOLU MEA NUI
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
  • EC
    EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $128k · revenue +191%
  • KM
    KAPALUA MAUI CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue -77% · 57% of their budget
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
4
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
5
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
—
6
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
7
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
8
Ka Makani Kaili Koa

Operating exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes, the organization preserves and advances Native Hawaiian culture through education, leadership, and STREAMY integration: Sciences, Technologies, Reading,…

Arts & Culture
9
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
10
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance

Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…

Environment
11
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Ke Ao Halii

The mission is to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the hana moku and the customary and traditional practices of native hawaiians of the region; to preserve and manage the area's natural, cultural, scenic, historic…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipahulu Ohana Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Cultural Arts Network. 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

166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 224 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/166
Grantees still filing
67/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAVITAS PASIFIKA LLC: $500,000 · OtherGRAVITAS PASIFIKA LLCHAWAII STAGE EVENT PRODUCTION COMPANY: $402,000 · OtherHAWAII STAGE EVENT PRODUCTION COMPANYWorld Triathlon Corporation: $300,000 · OtherHONOLULU MARATHON ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · OtherKEMPER SPORTS MARKETING LLC: $230,000 · OtherHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $231,000 · Other+89 more: $4,292,085 · Other+89 moreKAHULI LEO LEA: $330,000 · Arts & CultureKAHULI LEO LEAOAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION HAWAII: $265,000 · Arts & CultureOAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASS…ALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA ALOHA FESTIVALS: $250,000 · Arts & CultureALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA ALOH…THE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL: $215,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVALPohaha I Ka Lani: $170,000 · Arts & CultureKALA FOUNDATION: $165,000 · Arts & CulturePAN-PACIFIC FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC WAIMEA THEATER AND CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $127,500 · Arts & CultureHawaiian Music Perpetuation Society: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+41 more: $1,789,387 · Arts & Culture+41 moreHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $125,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN IS…Hi'ipaka LLC: $110,000 · EnvironmentHi'ipaka LL…Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project: $100,000 · EnvironmentFriends of …THE KOHALA CENTER: $90,000 · EnvironmentTHE KOHALA …WAIKOLOA DRY FOREST INITIATIVE INC: $84,250 · EnvironmentWAIKOLOA DR…KHM INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · EnvironmentKHM INTERNA…MOLOKAI LAND TRUST: $72,500 · EnvironmentMOLOKAI LAN…KANU HAWAII: $62,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT & PRESERVE HAWAII INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentPAPAHANA KUAOLA: $58,787 · EnvironmentKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $50,000 · EnvironmentHALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentAINA HO'OLA INITIATIVE: $50,000 · EnvironmentKUA AINA ULU AUAMO: $49,536 · Environment+8 more: $206,079 · Environment+8 moreKAULUAKALANA: $164,067 · Community ImprovementRICE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $136,500 · Community ImprovementHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLOKAHI PACIFIC: $69,463 · Community ImprovementASSOCIATION OF HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUBS: $66,000 · Community ImprovementULU A E LEARNING CENTER: $47,300 · Community ImprovementKAKOO OIWI: $46,669 · Community ImprovementKAILUA VILLAGE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: $35,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $41,600 · Community ImprovementPOLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME: $310,000 · Recreation & SportsLANIKAI ATHLETIC CLUB: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsKANEHUNAMOKU VOYAGING ACADEMY: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsAIO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsMAUI CANOE CLUB: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsKAIKEHA INC: $23,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsMAKANA O KE AKUA INC: $250,000 · HealthMEN OF PA A: $65,350 · HealthIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · HealthKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $40,000 · HealthEDITH KANAKA'OLE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationMOLOKAI HOMESTEAD FARMERS ALLIANCE: $65,000 · EducationMANA MAOLI: $45,000 · EducationEA ECOVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE: $26,930 · EducationNA AIKANE O MAUI INC: $25,000 · EducationYouth in Motion: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $22,610 · EducationHawaii Farmers Union Foundation: $17,876 · EducationGrants Central Station: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $10,500 · Education
Other$6,205,085Arts & Culture$3,576,887Environment$1,293,152Community Improvement$706,599Recreation & Sports$581,000Health$405,350Education$367,916

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKAHULI LEO LEA: $330,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetOAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION HAWAII: $265,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA ALOHA FESTIVALS: $250,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMAKANA O KE AKUA INC: $250,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetHONOLULU MARATHON ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $231,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL: $215,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetKUPU: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPohaha I Ka Lani: $170,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP: $167,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetKALA FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetNATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION: $164,455 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetKAULUAKALANA: $164,067 over 2y, 15% of budgetPAN-PACIFIC FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetRICE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $136,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetMALAMA LOKO EA FOUNDATION: $133,383 over 3y, 12% of budgetEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $127,652 over 1y, 12% of budgetHISTORIC WAIMEA THEATER AND CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $127,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHawaiian Music Perpetuation Society: $125,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetHONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPAI FOUNDATION: $114,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetLALAKEA FOUNDATION: $112,300 over 2y, 34% of budgetKAPALUA MAUI CHARITIES INC: $110,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetHi'ipaka LLC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $105,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project: $100,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetMALIE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $96,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KOHALA CENTER: $90,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE: $86,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWAIKOLOA DRY FOREST INITIATIVE INC: $84,250 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL: $82,289 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetACCESSURF HAWAII INC: $80,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKANEHUNAMOKU VOYAGING ACADEMY: $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetEDITH KANAKA'OLE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION: $74,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMOLOKAI LAND TRUST: $72,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMAUI DANCE COUNCIL: $70,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetLOKAHI PACIFIC: $69,463 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL: $67,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetMOLOKAI HOMESTEAD FARMERS ALLIANCE: $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetODKF SUPPORT INC: $65,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetKANU HAWAII: $62,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHOSPICE OF HILO: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetValley Isle Road Runner Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% 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.

Hawaii Visitors and C…Trustees of the Estat…Atherton Family Found…Hawaii Council for Hu…Tradewind Group Found…Central Pacific Bank …Kosasa FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…The People's FundAloha United Way IncCooke Foundation Limi…Bank of Hawaii Charit…
Hawaii Visitors and Convention BureauHI106× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Atherton Family Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Tradewind Group Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The People's Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Cooke Foundation Limited · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn

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 Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 224 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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