Hawaii · Nonprofit
BOTTLES4COLLEGE
BOTTLES4COLLEGE (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,222 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Bottles4college does
Mission
Bottles4College is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization that collects recyclable cans and bottles to help protect the planet and help fund college tuition for kids in Hawaii. To date, the Organization has now diverted over 150,000 lbs of cans and bottles from potentially becoming trash to being recycled, with nearly 2.5 million cans and bottles recycled. The 4 Pillars of Bottles4College are Education, Environment, Community, and Lifestyle.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2025, the organization collected and recycled approx 452,831 cans and bottles to protect the environment. To date, the organization has tried diverting over 150,000 lbs of trash from becoming landfill or ocean pollution through recycling. Majority of our expenses are used in order to accomplish large-scale recycling.
$33,845 spent49% of program spendingEnvironmental education hours via community events and speaking events. Educational hours totaling over 75 hrs. 250+ community volunteer hours for students throughout the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Community members were also provided volunteer opportunities. Community Volunteer events were created and given to Corporate employees of corporations enhancing their green initiatives.
$7,884 spent11% of program spendingBottles4College provides college scholarships for high school graduating students in Hawaii funded by environmental efforts. College scholarships were awarded to 7 Hawaii high school graduating students. $18,500 total has been awarded in 2025. Scholarships have been granted since 2023 and funded as the organization receives invoices from universities. $24,462.12 were funded in 2025 for scholarships. Non-disbursed funds are saved and reserved for future funding. Program service expenses include $18523.53 in funded scholarships and grants.
$27,462 spentof which $24,462 as grants40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,191.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $66k to $42k (−36%).
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.
100% of BOTTLES4COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 BOTTLES4COLLEGE’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
BOTTLES4COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 BOTTLES4COLLEGE.
“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
BOTTLES4COLLEGE draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
BOTTLES4COLLEGE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BOTTLES4COLLEGE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOTTLES4COLLEGE: 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 BOTTLES4COLLEGE?
- BOTTLES4COLLEGE (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,222 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOTTLES4COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $31,222 in grants to BOTTLES4COLLEGE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOTTLES4COLLEGE?
- Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOTTLES4COLLEGE 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 2022–2025), 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