Hawaii · Nonprofit
AWAIAULU INC
AWAIAULU INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $480,962 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $545k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $481k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Awaiaulu Inc does
Mission
Hawaiian language education and perpetuation. Reconnecting and bridging knowledge from Hawaiian historical resources to today's world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
This project is named Kipapa. It is a translation training project and includes work on translating 19th century Hawaiian language manuscripts into English and re-formatting the Hawaiian into current written language usage. The focus of these efforts is primarily training researchers, editors and translators. The efforts are currently producing on-line material available and useable by educators, students at all grade levels, and the public. The project includes 2 mentors-in-training, and 12 translators-in-training; all under the support and tutelage of Ms. Kaui Sai Dudoit and Dr. Puakea Nogelmeier, PHD, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii. The project also includes curriculum design available to school administrators, Hawaiian language teachers, and the general public. The curriculum design centers around important Hawaii events and people of the 19th century. This is an ongoing project funded primarily by grants.
$391,928 spent$49,148 earned by the program45% of program spendingThis project is named Hawaiian Masterworks and includes modern transcriptions and English translations of major writings by Hawaiian historians of the past. Currently the project includes Na Hunahuna Ike using the 19th century memoirs of John Papa Ii, and Ke Kumu Aupuni and Ke Aupuni Moi from the writings of Samuel Kamakau in 6 years of articles in 19th century Hawaiian language newspapers. The objective of this project is to significantly increase the competency of Hawaiian language translators. In addition to training translators and editors, the project will result in publishing the books that are expected to be a valuable resource for researchers, educators and the general public. This is an ongoing project and is primarily funded by grants.
$259,986 spent$26,962 earned by the program30% of program spendingThis project is named Kakoi which produces graphic novels based on the exploits of Kamehameha in both Hawaiian and English. Translators and editors are trained in producing accurate historical material adapted from Ke Kumu Aupuni. Another goal is to prepare graphic novels that will interest youth in Hawaiian history and encourage their interest in exploring further that history
$115,068 spent$47,590 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther translation projects include translations and training of translators; and also includes final reading and editing of material developed during Translation Training (described above) for publication. Almost all the published and other material will be used for education in Hawaiian language, history and culture.
$75,540 spent$63,222 earned by the program9% of program spendingThis project is named Mahuahua which works to map fields of knowledge in the Hawaiian language repository of newspapers, letters, documents, and manuscripts. It gives our fluent scholars experience in locating and charting the broadest range of historical resources in a given field. Mahuahua offers mentored experience in language, history and culture while developing professional cohorts and skilled experts. They learn to do the tremendous work of accessing, charting, and translating the full range of knowledge in our long-overlooked treasury of Hawaiian language.
$30,401 spent3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $872,923.
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 2024 to 2025, from $594k to $65k (−89%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 26% · 2021 33% · 2022 72% · 2023 71% · 2024 71% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of AWAIAULU INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Marvin Puakea Nogelmeier
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $1k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 AWAIAULU INC’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
AWAIAULU INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 AWAIAULU INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 90% · 2022 89% · 2023 98% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of AWAIAULU INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of AWAIAULU INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118 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
AWAIAULU INC's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding AWAIAULU INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $933k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$933k
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 AWAIAULU INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AWAIAULU INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AWAIAULU INC?
- AWAIAULU INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $480,962 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AWAIAULU INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $480,962 in grants to AWAIAULU INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AWAIAULU INC?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AWAIAULU INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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