Hawaii · Nonprofit
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,642,774 to it, the largest being HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION ($909,750). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Domestic Violence Action Center does
Mission
The Domestic Violence Action Center is committed to ending domestic violence and other forms of abuse through leadership, prevention, legal services, individual and systematic advocacy, and social change work. We believe all persons should be created with equality, dignity, and fairness. With high quality and culturally sensitive programs, delivered with integrity and compassion, we are creating safety and self-sufficiency for survivors and their children.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Programs
Dvac's legal team provides civil legal services for survivors, consisting of complex and potentially lethal divorce, restraining order, paternity, and post decree matters. Fy 2025 the team opened 72 cases, closed 83 cases, made 78 court appearances, and assisted 1,357 clients through expo services in the court building.
$198,074 spent$87,166 earned by the program5% of program spendingDvac advocates provide intensive support to survivors of family violence on oahu. In addition to core support (long term advocacy, risk assessments, safety plans) they also provide access to emergency financial assistance and referrals to community resources. Fy 2025, advocates opened 975 cases, closed 607 cases, made 739 court appointment accompaniments, conducted 2741 risk assessments, and completed 2972 safety plans. Dvac staff provided 105 support group sessions for survivors. Supporting housing program for survivors of domestic violence helps to reduce homelessness among oahu survivors of domestic abuse. Both apartments and shared group housing are provided, with a full array of agency services available to support participants in the program. In fy 2025 dvac's supportive housing program served 31 adults and 56 children.
$2,921,574 spent79% of program spendingTap808 offers education about teen relationship violence, promotes healthy relationships and alerts youth to warning signs of relationship violence. In fy2025 tap delivered youth presentations across the state reaching 3,089 youth participants.
$388,450 spent10% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$193,742 spentof which $193,742 as grants5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,701,840.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.1M to $7.5M (+22%).
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 81% · 2018 86% · 2019 81% · 2020 74% · 2021 75% · 2022 76% · 2023 65% · 2024 76% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% 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.
Chief executive
Monique Ibarra
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $249k → $366k.
3 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
59% 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 51% · 2019 43% · 2020 14% · 2021 19% · 2022 40% · 2023 41% — 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
41% of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
66% of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
- Department of Justice$2.9M
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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER: 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER?
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,642,774 to it, the largest being HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION ($909,750). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,642,774 in grants to DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER?
- HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $909,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER 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 48 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