Hawaii · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED
CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,000 to it, the largest being HAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Center for Getting Things Started does
Mission
Center for Getting Things Started works with students, teachers, and organizations to incorporate and live an ethic of sustainability in practice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education for sustainability (efs) is defined as a transformative learning process that equips students, teachers, and school systems with the new knowledge and ways of thinking we need to achieve economic prosperity and responsible citizenship while restoring the health of the living systems upon which our lives depend.
$197,973 spent50% of program spendingGround zero initiative is a collaborative effort between nonprofit, for profit and community based organizations to co-create regenerative economy and culture through customized plans we call pathways to zero. These plans guide and empower festival communities to reduce their climate and ecological impacts to net zero. These pathways to zero then serve as model templates of regenerative economy to be utilized by other communities and serve as an emergent nexus of regenerative culture, thus creating value of and for the regenerative economy.
$197,972 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $395,945.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $134k to $35k (−74%).
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: 2021 37% · 2022 54% · 2023 59% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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 held at 1 funder, grant income held at $20k.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED’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
CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$500k
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 CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED: 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 CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED?
- CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,000 to it, the largest being HAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $78,000 in grants to CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED?
- HAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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