Hawaii · Nonprofit
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT (Hawaii) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,800,660 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($12,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 139
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement does
Mission
The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (cnha) is a member-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to enhance the cultural, economic, political, and community development of native hawaiians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The emergency financial assistance (efa) program provides financial assistance to individuals and families in need of temporary financial relief due to hardship. During the pandemic, cnha managed and disbursed over $176 million in covid-related funds on behalf of the state of hawaii, city and county of honolulu, and the department of hawaiian home lands. These funds helped provide financial relief to households to pay for mortgages, rental fees, and utilities. This program is funded by contracts, donations, and grants.
$14,047,124 spentof which $9,418,489 as grants$960,658 earned by the program42% of program spendingTourism supports community-based and cultural tourism efforts through a number of activities that include cultural tourism training for native hawaiian individuals and organizations; visitor education programs that perpetuate hawaiian culture and local practices; support and technical assistance for native hawaiian-owned tourism businesses; and the facilitation of destination stewardship services for the hawaii tourism authority.
$9,435,441 spentof which $5,478,398 as grants28% of program spendingCapacity building services supports community capacity building through a number of efforts that include distribution of funds to small nonprofit organizations that perpetuate the hawaiian culture; provision of leadership development programs for native youth; provision of training and technical assistance to native hawaiian organizations and communities; and the coordination of events that provide opportunities for native hawaiian individuals and organizations to network, share information, discuss critical issues, and build consensus. Cnha received contributions on behalf of disaster relief efforts.
$4,418,948 spentof which $1,584,834 as grants$1,445,314 earned by the program13% of program spendingThrough its policy center activities, cnha is an advocate of community-based organizations and provides information, networking opportunities and policy reports to assist in addressing issues and finding solutions for native hawaiian communities. Cnha also has a year-round civic engagement training and development program.cnha is a united states treasury certified community development financial institution that operates a community loan fund through its lending and development services program. Lending services include both consumer and business loans and the provision of technical assistance and financial education services. Cnha also provides technical assistance and capacity building services to community organizations in the development, construction, and management of community facilities. Cnha's property management activities include acquiring property for low income and affordable housing.
$5,539,180 spentof which $5,084 as grants$3,022,642 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,440,693.
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 $48M to $83M (+71%).
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 18% · 2018 38% · 2019 22% · 2020 28% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 60% · 2024 28% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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
Lewis Joseph K
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 91 funders, grant income rose $56k → $3.9M.
31 of 139 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 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
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 58% · 2019 41% · 2020 84% · 2021 24% · 2022 47% · 2023 20% — 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
53% of COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 24% 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
64% of COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.2M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$2.7M
- Small Business Administration$1.8M
- Department of Labor$1.2M
- Environmental Protection Agency$500k
- Department of Agriculture$500k
- Department of Commerce$300k
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 COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Hawaii Stage and Lighting · corp_trust
- Hawaii Holding and Investments LLC · corp_trust
- Hawaii Staffing & Services · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT?
- COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT (Hawaii) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,800,660 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($12,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 139 organizations giving $28,800,660 in grants to COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT 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.
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 139 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing