Hawaii · Nonprofit
THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR
THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,253,975 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($785,267). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $560k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $469k
What The Education Incubator does
Mission
To empower people to live with passion and purpose in service of a better world through placebased, culturally-grounded workshops, programs, and professional development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Foundations of aloha offers cohorts of youth, families, and educators daily opportunities for building social emotional learning and living practices grounded in the values of hawaii and the teachings of aloha. We offer learning and practice opportunities for hawaii's youth and families to support well-being and stability and provide professional development support to organizations that offer youth and family programming. These supports range from co-designing programs, to providing workshops, and other forms of consulting. Innovation with aloha focuses on bringing the practices associated with innovation and entrepreneurship to educational contexts, through workshops, classes, curriculum design, and professional development. Iwa focuses on community problem-solving and solution-generating through the lens of passion, purpose, and positive-change, helping youth and educators to turn learning into opportunities for positive impact in local communities. This work includes classes and experiences in design thinking, rapid prototyping, product development, essentials of entrepreneurship, and creative confidence.
$351,472 spent$535,234 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $351,472.
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 2020 to 2021, from $213k to $367k (+73%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 24% · 2021 67% · 2022 60% · 2023 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Miki Tomita Okamoto
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $453k → $166k.
2 of 7 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 THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR’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
THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 69% · 2022 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 THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR: 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 THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR?
- THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,253,975 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($785,267). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,253,975 in grants to THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $785,267 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EDUCATION INCUBATOR 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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