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HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE

HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,477 to it, the largest being THE MUSSER FUND ($34,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$282k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$85k
Net assets
$108k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Hawaii Childrens Theatre does

Mission

Hct is committed to being a world-class, multi-cultural theater arts education program that enriches the lives of young people, their families and the community through education, live theatre & quality entertainment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Hct presented outstanding shows in summer stars. Rising stars gala. The showcase is a summer workshop program for children.

    $255,069 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $255,069.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 100 ($216k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 99 ($196k) Expenses 94 ($203k) Net assets 84 ($35k)2019 Revenue 115 ($226k) Expenses 97 ($209k) Net assets 125 ($52k)2020 Revenue 42 ($84k) Expenses 47 ($101k) Net assets 83 ($34k)2021 Revenue 73 ($144k) Expenses 63 ($136k) Net assets 102 ($42k)2022 Revenue 89 ($176k) Expenses 73 ($158k) Net assets 147 ($61k)2023 Revenue 132 ($261k) Expenses 113 ($244k) Net assets 188 ($78k)2024 Revenue 144 ($283k) Expenses 122 ($263k) Net assets 259 ($107k)2025 Revenue 143 ($282k) Expenses 129 ($279k) Net assets 261 ($108k)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (129)Net assets (261)Peer revenue range

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 $118k to $145k (+23%).

$47k
$36k
$54k
$75k
$82k
$98k
$118k
$145k
$140k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 36% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

42% of HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
−$7k
’18
$17k
’19
−$17k
’20
$8k
’21
$18k
’22
$17k
’23
$20k
’24
$3k
’25
5.5
months of
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.

2019202320242025
Listed8777
Joined··+0+0
No longer listed··00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $16k.

1 of 8 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 HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE’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 CHILDRENS THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 48% · 2021 55% · 2022 62% · 2023 75% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

52% of HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

WI
NC
HI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve5.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE?
HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,477 to it, the largest being THE MUSSER FUND ($34,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $85,477 in grants to HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE?
THE MUSSER FUND is the largest funder on record, with $34,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE 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 8 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