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Hawaii · Nonprofit
GREAT FOREST MINISTRY INC (Hawaii) is funded by 2 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $83,000 in grants to it, the largest being TisBest Philanthropy ($73,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREAT FOREST MINISTRY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,071 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,071 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
$28k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $30k and 2 in 2023.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 GREAT FOREST MINISTRY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
GREAT FOREST MINISTRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2023 67% · 2024 100% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
GREAT FOREST MINISTRY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
100% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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. view filing