Hawaii · Nonprofit
Hale Mua Cultural Group
Hale Mua Cultural Group (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,279 to it, the largest being KALA FOUNDATION ($23,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Hale Mua Cultural Group does
Mission
Native Hawaiian cultural preservation
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
2024 King Kamehameha Day Celebration Parade in Konawas attended by over 1,000 residents. County of Hawaii grant joined with donations from local business perpetuates a much loved community event
$11,222 spentof which $6,600 as grants17% of program spendingOHA Waipio RestorationAll members of the Hawaiian culture benefit from cultural restorationHeaiu restored for future generations
$36,654 spentof which $36,250 as grants54% of program spendingCoughenour TrustVehicle for Waipio RestorationMust have for road conditions, all workers benefited
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,876.
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 2023 to 2024, from $104k to $141k (+36%).
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.
94% of Hale Mua Cultural Group’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Nephi Pomaika'i Brown
CEO/Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $27.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Hale Mua Cultural Group’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
Hale Mua Cultural Group leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
75% 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 Hale Mua Cultural Group.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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
59% of Hale Mua Cultural Group's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79 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.
Against its field
Hale Mua Cultural Group 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 Hale Mua Cultural Group
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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hale Mua Cultural Group: 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 Hale Mua Cultural Group?
- Hale Mua Cultural Group (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,279 to it, the largest being KALA FOUNDATION ($23,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hale Mua Cultural Group have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,279 in grants to Hale Mua Cultural Group, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hale Mua Cultural Group?
- KALA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hale Mua Cultural Group 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 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