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Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ

In 1972, kumu hula george lanakilakekiahiali`I na`ope and kahu wendell silva created our organization to preserve hawaiian culture through dance. From that idea they formed the KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETy, inc. (kpcas) to provide opportunities for hawaii's keiki, regardless of nationality, to showcase hula, hawaiian language and…

$20k
Granted FY2019
1
Itemized grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$10k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$92k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20191$10k100%
FY20182$108kn/a
67% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Education$98kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hale Kua$98,0001n/a
Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs$9,50019%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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About Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ

How much does Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ give?
Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $19,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (83%), Community Improvement (8%).
Who are Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Hale Kua ($98k), Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs ($10k).
Does Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ based?
Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Societ 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 3 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $12k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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