Hawaii · Nonprofit
ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC
ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,368,177 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,486,567). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $70M
- Net assets
- $53M
What Elemental Excelerator Inc does
Mission
Elemental excelerator (organization) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to scale technologies with deep environmental and local impact.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization conducts a technology commercialization program that serves to connect, coach and support entrepreneurs building and deploying innovative technology solutions across the areas of energy, water, transportation, food and agriculture and industry. Additionally, in furtherance of its exempt purposes, the organization provides catalytic funding and technical services to the startups selected for its program to implement commercial pilots and projects in local communities across the united states and globally.
$21,204,167 spentof which $856,425 as grants$239,910 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,204,167.
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 2022 to 2023, from $32M to $47M (+48%).
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 32% · 2020 49% · 2021 42% · 2022 18% · 2023 22% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Dawn Lippert
Director/chief executive officer
Board chair
Laurene Powell Jobs
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $38k → $20M.
12 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 80% · 2019 90% · 2020 92% · 2021 77% · 2022 51% · 2023 34% — 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
11% of ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
72% of ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC'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 $19M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.0M on record.
- Department of Defense$32.0M
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 ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC: 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 ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC?
- ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,368,177 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,486,567). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $70,368,177 in grants to ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $30,486,567 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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