Hawaii · Nonprofit
H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES
H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES (Hawaii) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,565 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($276,114). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $852k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What H U G S for Hawaii's Seriously Ill Children and Their Families does
Mission
To provide a wide range of support services to families with children, birth to age 21, diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Services are provided through programs including respite, hospital visitation, peer support, family resources and referrals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To provide a wide range of support services to hawaii's families with children, birth to age 21, diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Services are provided through programs including hospital visitation, peer support activities, respite, connection to family resources and referrals, emergency food distribution, and emergency airfare assistance. Served 2,202 individuals in 2024.
$548,281 spentof which $31,818 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $548,281.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.7M (+21%).
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 14% · 2018 12% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 27% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Maureen Purington
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $99k → $83k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES’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
H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 96% · 2019 40% · 2020 38% · 2021 58% · 2022 59% · 2023 30% — 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
55% of H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES'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
96% of H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $312k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES: 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 H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES?
- H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES (Hawaii) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $851,565 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($276,114). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $851,565 in grants to H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES?
- ALOHA UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $276,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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