California · Nonprofit
HAKAWATI
HAKAWATI (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,000 to it, the largest being Afeyan Family Foundation ($160,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $183k
- Net assets
- $38k
What Hakawati does
Mission
The organization provides an empowering platform that facilitates the creative talent of refugees and marginalized people through development labs in film, theater, and other storytelling modalities, along with creating indigenous theater and film productions. Hakawati works with, and employs people from within these local communities whenever possible to tell stories by people from the places and spaces where the story originates. The organization works to preserve cultures under threat, mentor artists in frontline communities, and support refugee storytelling within displaced communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Hakawati ngo integrates the work of professional artists, renowned spiritual teachers, innovators, scientists, and therapists with a commitment to transform trauma through authentic storytelling. Hakawati is a non-profit organization that accepts donations globally. Usa donors can make use of its 501(c)(3) tax exempt status (ein #83-1664484). Hakawati usa is a 501(c)(3), a registered non-profit organization since 2018. Hakawati armenia is a newly registered ngo since 2024.
$125,441 spent$163,514 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $125,441.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 HAKAWATI’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
HAKAWATI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
HAKAWATI draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HAKAWATI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HAKAWATI
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HAKAWATI: 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 HAKAWATI?
- HAKAWATI (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,000 to it, the largest being Afeyan Family Foundation ($160,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAKAWATI have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $183,000 in grants to HAKAWATI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAKAWATI?
- Afeyan Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAKAWATI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 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