Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION
HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $972,553 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($315,954). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $426k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $973k
- Net assets
- $959k
What Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation does
Mission
Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation serves to assist, support, and advocate for the needs of patients, families and long-term survivors of childhood cancer. The foundation advocates and promotes state of the art health care for patients and survivors. The foundation's primary purpose is to provide services and programs to children with cancer and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family financial assistance - paid medical costs and other costs for children with cancer who qualify under the requirements and guidelines established.
$493,685 spentof which $347,477 as grants95% of program spendingBook reimbursement program - paid for books, tools and supplies used for education for children with cancer who qualify under the requirements and guidelines of the program.frank seleny scholarship fund - to help defray tuition costs for young adult survivors who are pursuing an education post high school.
$15,186 spentof which $10,426 as grants3% of program spendingFamily support services - provide social events, newsletter, school advocacy and other services for families with children with cancer. Includes providing newly diagnosed children with baskets and providing them with information necessary to help cope with the disease.
$13,163 spentof which $9,528 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $522,034.
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 $985k to $1.2M (+22%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION’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. 5 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
Michelle Meredith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $78k → $87k.
3 of 35 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 HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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 CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 85% · 2019 37% · 2020 32% · 2021 49% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION 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 CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: 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 CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION?
- HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $972,553 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($315,954). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $972,553 in grants to HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION?
- ALOHA UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $315,954 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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