Hawaii · Nonprofit
Hale Puna
Hale Puna (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $154k
What Hale Puna does
Mission
Hale Puna perpetuates the rich history of kauais westside while promoting cultural and economic resiliency within the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hale Puna farm school - a workforce training program designed for local youth to learn about sustainable agriculture from the planning stage to the marketplace. Transforming traditional forest land into vegetable and fruit garden, presenting classes and workshops around food, sustainability, permaculture and history of kauai agriculture.
$91,136 spent$13,759 earned by the program50% of program spendingRestoring Hale Puna - building restoration built in 1828 and abandoned since 2004, know as the producing sponsor for the kauai old time gathering and annual event in kokee state park to promote old time hawaiian and mainland american music and crafts through workshop and performance.
$51,157 spent28% of program spendingWe empower communities with access to locally grown produce. We manage a 1-acre regenerative farming food forest, host gardening events and youth agricultural learning programs, and hold a weekly farmers market featuring local farmers and artisans.
$38,871 spent$34,786 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $181,164.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $148k to $180k (+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: 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of Hale Puna’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of Hale Puna’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 Puna leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
80% 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 Puna.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Hale Puna's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Puna has grown faster 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 Puna
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Hale Puna: 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 Puna?
- Hale Puna (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hale Puna have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $75,000 in grants to Hale Puna, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hale Puna?
- HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hale Puna 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 2018–2024), 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