Hawaii · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE
FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE (Hawaii) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,749,393 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($578,125). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Friends of the Future does
Mission
The mission of Friends of the Future is to create trust and harmony among the diverse cultures of Hawaii through a process where all people can openly contribute their deepest values, create shared visions and continuously improve their commuities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Friends of the Future received a 2-year grant from Hawaii County to implement three programs: 1) Family Childcare Start Ups, as part of an island wide strategy to provide more infant and toddler care programs in home settings, allowing individuals to start fully licensed child care centers in their homes. 2) Apprenticeships & Training projects which provided paid apprenticeships for individuals pursuing degrees and certificates in early childhood education, along with support for an annual Early Childhood Conference to provide the latest information in best practices in early childhood education. 3) Early Literacy, focused on all children in the Keaau-Kau-Pahoa area conplex public schools to be reading at grade level by third grade. The program provided 1,500 age appropriate books to home visiting services, schools and families, sponsored two (2) conferences ad six (6) community events attended by more than 750. In addition there was an 18-month grant to increase parent engagement in early childhood education and literacy in the home.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Youth Programs include: Four (4) Aloha MAP programs provided academic tutoring, college/career coaching, hands on STEM activities and family enrichment field trips to 8,700 students in grades K-12 in pubic schools on Hawaii Island. No Ke Ola Pono provided field day physical activities at 12 public elementary and middle schools serving 1,450 students while also providing SEL skills. Earl's garage provided monthly Family Science Night activities for children ages 7 and up, providing a shared family experience and a simple meal; a total of 50 adults and 75 children were served.
$3,528,363 spent79% of program spendingHealth & Wellness Programs include: Tutu's House, a community resource center serving the community for more than 30 years, offered 1,032 in-person and video conferencing health-related education presentations with 6,875 attendees, and a lending library used by 85 individuals. Neighborhood place of Kona provided care coordination services, emergency food and diapers, and housing assistance for 140 families with children ages birth to 18, offered six (6) community events with more than 300 attendees, and received 425 requests for information and referral services. Waimea Trails & Greenways, a community effort to build 6 miles of multi-modal transportation trails thoughout Waimea, held four (4) community work days attended by 55 volunteers. Waimea Futures is a community-wide effort to create a shared vision for Waimea?s Future. During the year six (6) 90-day prototype projects focused on community-identified priorities. A total of 12 activities, attended by more than 350 people shared oral histoies and community values.
$626,302 spent14% of program spendingCultural Programs include: Na Haumana o Papa Auwae 20 students/practitioners continued stewardship of Lapakahi State Park. Hui Kuapa perpeturates Hawaiian history, music, dance and storytelling through monthly Twilight at Klahuipuaa gatherings, attended by 2,500 people. Ho'ola Hou is a cultural program that perpetuates taro farming by providing opportunities for students and community members to learn and practice taro farming; a total of 200 stutudents and 75 adults participated in the program.
$290,038 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,444,703.
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 $826k to $1.7M (+101%).
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 46% · 2018 65% · 2019 74% · 2020 84% · 2021 69% · 2022 78% · 2023 77% · 2024 73% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $5k → $437k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
34% 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 FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 93% · 2019 32% · 2020 31% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% — 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
40% of FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
54% of FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE is better cushioned than half of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.4M on record.
- Department of Education$18.4M
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 FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE: 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 FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE?
- FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE (Hawaii) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,749,393 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($578,125). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,749,393 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $578,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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