Hawaii · Nonprofit
COMMON GRACE
COMMON GRACE (Hawaii) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,648 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC ($69,283). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $570k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $272k
- Net assets
- $390k
What Common Grace does
Mission
Common Grace provides mentors to vulnerable children in Hawaii Public Schools by matching them with caring, dedicated and trained mentors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Common Grace facilitates relationships between local churches and neighborhood public schools in the state of hawaii. A total number of about 4,600 children have been helped by 2003 by matching the children with mentors from their neighborhood church. Out mentors commit to meeting with their students for one hour, once a week, on their school campus. Many of our students face challenges such as broken homes, non-english speaking families, incarcerated parents, and even homelessness. Many are simply neglected by peers and their families. The children selected by the schools don't always have behavioral or academic problems; sometimes they just need the personal attention than an adult mentor can provide.
$390,888 spent100% of program spendingMalama mentors partners exceptional juniors and seniors in local high school with disadvanted kids in a nearby elementary school. High school mentors who are chosen for malama mentors demonstrate excellence academically, socially and in the community. Students are interviewed and handpicked by teachers and counselors. Once trained, these high school students are carefully matched with a child in an elementary school and spend an hour a week with them giving their undivided attention.
Through fundraising Common Grace is able to seek and gather voluntary financial contributions to facilitate relationships between local church volunteers and public schools. Common Grace seeks to use imaginative, fun and helpful involvement with kids to build a stronger future for our wider community.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $390,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $83k to $288k (+247%).
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: 2019 11% · 2020 29% · 2021 22% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of COMMON GRACE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Vehia Goo
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $16k → $33k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 COMMON GRACE’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
COMMON GRACE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
40% 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 COMMON GRACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 100% · 2020 34% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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 COMMON GRACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
86% of COMMON GRACE's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
COMMON GRACE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding COMMON GRACE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $984k on record.
- Department of Justice$984k
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 COMMON GRACE
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON GRACE: 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 COMMON GRACE?
- COMMON GRACE (Hawaii) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $271,648 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC ($69,283). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON GRACE have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $271,648 in grants to COMMON GRACE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON GRACE?
- FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $69,283 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON GRACE 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 16 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