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Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium

The purpose of the FRIENDS OF THE WAIKIKI AQUARIUM (fowa) is to help people of all ages understand, love, care for and work to protect the life of the ocean through a commitment to excellence in educational and entertaining experiences, research and conservation.

$250k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$250,000
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$4.9M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2020.

Individual grant recipient$250,000

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About Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium

How much does Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium give?
Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium reported 1 grants totaling $250,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Where is Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium based?
Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium is based in HI.

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 1 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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