Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII 3RS
HAWAII 3RS (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,879 to it, the largest being MAUI UNITED WAY ($178,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $274k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Hawaii 3rs does
Mission
Purposes are to further charitable, literary, religious or educational purposes under section 501(c)(3), including but not limited to, addressing the problem of the lack of resources for hawaii's public schools, and making distributions to organizations that qualify as tax-exempt organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
1. Hawaii 3rs awards grants to public schools for repair and maintenance projects that may include painting, landscaping, technical repairs and general cleanup, as approved by the state department of education (doe). Hawaii 3rs provides oversight, project management and organization of professional, licensed vendors and volunteers for the projects as needed. Funds are generated from private contributions, legislative appropriations and a check-off designation from the state tax form. Since its inception in 2001, Hawaii 3rs has conducted more than 500 projects at schools across the state, saving the state more than $40 million.2. The doe provided more than $30 million to Hawaii 3rs to install playground equipment in every elementary school in the state. Eventually, the doe has indicated it would also expand the program to include middle and high schools.3. At the request of the doe, Hawaii 3rs assisted in the development and renovation of classroom space for a unique health academy designed to provide healthcare training to students while offering health services to students and community residents. The successful completion of this project has activated requests for similar…
$12,879,711 spentof which $12,691,046 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,879,711.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.3M to $29M (+573%).
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 92% · 2018 84% · 2019 54% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2023 99% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of HAWAII 3RS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
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.
Board chair
Alan Oshima
Chairman/director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of HAWAII 3RS’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
HAWAII 3RS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 HAWAII 3RS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 53% · 2019 57% · 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
96% of HAWAII 3RS'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
HAWAII 3RS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like HAWAII 3RS
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 HAWAII 3RS: 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 HAWAII 3RS?
- HAWAII 3RS (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,879 to it, the largest being MAUI UNITED WAY ($178,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII 3RS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $273,879 in grants to HAWAII 3RS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII 3RS?
- MAUI UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $178,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII 3RS 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 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