Hawaii · Nonprofit
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU (Hawaii) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,893,101 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($20,910,031). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $120M
What Chaminade University of Honolulu does
Mission
Chaminade university offers its students an education in a collaborative learning environment that prepares them for life, work and service. Guided by its catholic, marianist and liberal arts educational traditions, chaminade encourages the (see schedule o) development of moral character and personal competencies, and the commitment to build a just and peaceful society. The university offers the civic and church communities of the pacific region its academic and intellectual resources in the pursuit of common aims.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Chaminade offers an education in a collaborative learning environment that prepares students for life, service and successful careers. Guided by its catholic, marianist and liberal arts educational traditions and accredited by the wasc senior college and university commission, chaminade provides 2500 students with 26 undergraduate degree programs, 12 certificate programs, 10 graduate programs, five doctoral programs and 15 degree opportunities for working adults.
$67,861,543 spentof which $22,620,533 as grants$61,077,234 earned by the program91% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises at chaminade include a 300 student residence hall program; dining services featuring the silversword cafe and courtyard pod market; ncaa pacific west conference division ii athletic program annually hosting the maui jim invitational basketball tournament; campus bookstore.
$6,631,459 spent$4,264,188 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,493,002.
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 2023 to 2024, from $123M to $147M (+19%).
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 15% · 2018 16% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 20% · 2023 13% · 2024 12% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
K Dancil
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $8.7M.
6 of 84 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 CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 funders by total. 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
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 88% · 2019 79% · 2020 81% · 2021 79% · 2022 81% · 2023 82% — 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
43% of CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45.7M on record.
- Department of Education$33.4M
- National Science Foundation$8.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
- Department of Commerce$1.0M
- Department of Defense$88k
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 CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Marianist Center of Hawaii · exempt
- Marianist Province of the United States · exempt
- Chaminade University Educational Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU?
- CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU (Hawaii) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,893,101 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($20,910,031). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $27,893,101 in grants to CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $20,910,031 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU 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 84 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