· Public charity
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana
Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+8 grants · $6.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AHU ILI | $3,634,400 |
| KA WAIHONA O KA NA'AUAO | $606,394 |
| KANU O KA AINA NEW CENTURY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $541,922 |
| KE KULA 'O NAWAHIOKALANI'OPU'U IKI | $485,100 |
| KAMAILE ACADEMY | $398,403 |
| KA UMEKE KA'EO HIPCS | $294,742 |
| KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA | $258,482 |
| KE KULA O SAMUEL M KAMAKAU LAB PCS | $256,735 |
| KUALAPUU SCHOOL | $241,119 |
| MALAMA HONUA PCS | $222,296 |
| HALAU KU MANA PCS | $217,739 |
| KE ANA LAAHANA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $206,788 |
| KUA O KA LA NCPCS | $172,158 |
| HAKIPU'U ACADEMY | $163,683 |
| WAIMEA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $157,048 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KOKANU O KA 'AINA NEW CENTURY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M
- KWKA WAIHONA O KA NA'AUAO 21ST PCS3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M
- KKKE KULA 'O NAWAHIOKALANI'OPU'U3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M
Funded once
- AIAHU ILIgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3.6M · revenue +985%
- WMWAIMEA MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $157k
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.
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.
To establish and perpetuate hawaiian culture in partnership with the community to achieve lokahi (harmony, unity, total wellness) and aloha.
Supporting the language of kau`ai, inc.'s mission is "to support and perpetuate the native hawaiian language through education and cultural enrichment."
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.
Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.
Kua o kanaueue's mission is to empower our community through education and support for sustainable food production, cultivating a resilient, self-sufficient regional food system rooted in hawaiian values, knowledge, and agricultural…
Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.
Nuturing lifelong learners and passionate community leaders by cultivating an enriching environment of academic excellence grounded in Hawaiian culture and values.
Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…
How this is measured
3 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. 3 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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