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AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES
AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $837,894 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($504,031). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $537k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $838k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Aha Kane - Foundation for the Ad- Vancement of Native Hawaiian Males does
Mission
To nurture a healthier native hawaiian male population by eliminating psychosocial, health, and educational disparities founded on traditional cultural practices and building sustainability in the community. To increase our awareness and empower native hawaiian males to fulfill our roles and responsibilities amongst ourselves, as well as within our families and our respective communities. To strengthen the native hawaiian community through nurturing and perpetuating the traditional male roles and responsibilities that contribute to the physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being of hawaiian males, their families and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Aha kane pivoted to address the needs and desires of the community during a time of uncertainty from covid-19. Aha kane focused on healing the family. Aha kane partnered and collaborated with community gatekeepers and community organizations to provide lectures, panel discussions, demonstrations, workshops and classes on zoom and social media to reach the broader population that was living through a government-imposed lockdown. Aha ohana virtual was composed of kane, wahine, mahu, kupuna, opio, and keiki. Aha ohana virtual groups acknowledged the foundation of a thriving family to have healthy communication, strong relationships, and a sense of identity that positively influences the social determinants of health and well-being among all members. Together as one ohana and through the extension of partnerships aha kane provided instruction on various topics related to health, language, economics, housing, kupuna, and veteran affairs through social media and various virtual platforms. As restrictions retracted, aha kane developed in person workshops targeting the youth by developing a summer program to help the youth reconnect with the land and hawaiian healing practices.
$517,234 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $517,234.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $21k to $306k (+1326%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 87% · 2019 74% · 2020 49% · 2022 61% · 2023 97% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $203k → $251k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES’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
AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 45% · 2021 80% · 2022 97% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
80% of AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$100k
- Department of the Interior$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES?
- AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $837,894 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($504,031). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $837,894 in grants to AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $504,031 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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