Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,071 to it, the largest being WILLIAM J AND DOROTHY K O'NEILL FOUNDATION INC ($76,065). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $396k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development does
Mission
To encourage increased investment in sustainable and community-based approaches to economic development hacbed advances its mission to address, social, economic, and environmental justice in hawaii through community based economic development and seek to help strengthen the voice and actions of hawaii families and communities so that they have the choice and control they need to become self sufficient and resilient.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support the application, distribution of grants, and final reporting of puna strong organizations.
$65,122 spentof which $65,000 as grants$75,000 earned by the program18% of program spendingProvide network building, technical assistance, and administrative support to the energy equity hui
$0 spent$40,506 earned by the program0% of program spendingProvide intermediary support including guidance, meeting facilitation, organization of community engagement, and synthesized report.
$9,479 spent$35,100 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$288,069 spent79% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $362,670.
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 2018 to 2019, from $190k to $458k (+141%).
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 6% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 91% · 2021 71% · 2022 80% · 2023 84% · 2024 63% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Brent Kakesako
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $104k → $32.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’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 ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
48% 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 ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 73% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: 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 ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?
- HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,071 to it, the largest being WILLIAM J AND DOROTHY K O'NEILL FOUNDATION INC ($76,065). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $147,071 in grants to HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?
- WILLIAM J AND DOROTHY K O'NEILL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $76,065 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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