Hawaii · Nonprofit
GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND)
GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND) (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,262 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($167,121). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $706k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $168k
- Net assets
- $205k
What Guide Dogs of Hawaii (Adaptive AIDS Canines and Advocacy for the Blind) does
Mission
Striving to enhance communications, promote equality and create opportunities for hawaii's blind and visually impaired.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Camp get ahead for youth:in 2024, we hosted our 6th annual camp get ahead, serving 15 blind and visually impaired youths statewide. Campers gained independence through self-care, daily living skills, and accessible activities like basketball, nature walks, horseback riding, and swimming. Most importantly, they built friendships and discovered their own potential.get visual train-a-thon:our annual get visual train-a-thon empowers clients of all ages to strengthen mobility-the foundation of independence for the blind and visually impaired. Youth are inspired by adults who model successful, independent living, creating mentorship, confidence, and hope for the future.positive aging:our positive aging program supports blind and visually impaired seniors with activities that promote wellness, independence, and social connection. With ongoing orientation and mobility training, seniors preserve their autonomy, stay active, and remain engaged members of their community.together, these programs create a continuum of care-from youth to adulthood to the senior years-ensuring that blind and visually impaired individuals have the skills, confidence, and community they need to live full,…
$475,156 spent$2,834 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $475,156.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $390k to $972k (+149%).
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 51% · 2018 37% · 2019 47% · 2020 34% · 2021 28% · 2023 33% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Jeanne Torres
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $13k.
1 of 3 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 GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND)’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
GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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 GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND)'s grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND)
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND): 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 GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND)?
- GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND) (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,262 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($167,121). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND) have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $168,262 in grants to GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND), 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND)?
- ALOHA UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $167,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUIDE DOGS OF HAWAII (ADAPTIVE AIDS CANINES AND ADVOCACY FOR THE BLIND) 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 3 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