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HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1284 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,379,161 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($28,660,450). 240 of them have funded it in more than one year. HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$161M
Funders on record
1,284
Grants received
$242M
Net assets
$987M
240/1284 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$602M

Recipients

0

Contributions on record

$244M

Donors on record

1,286

Payments out run 2.5x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($55M) Expenses 100 ($55M) Net assets 100 ($557M)2018 Revenue 119 ($65M) Expenses 105 ($58M) Net assets 94 ($524M)2019 Revenue 175 ($96M) Expenses 109 ($60M) Net assets 114 ($636M)2020 Revenue 293 ($161M) Expenses 231 ($127M) Net assets 130 ($723M)2021 Revenue 233 ($128M) Expenses 166 ($92M) Net assets 146 ($813M)2022 Revenue 216 ($119M) Expenses 142 ($78M) Net assets 130 ($723M)2023 Revenue 491 ($270M) Expenses 213 ($118M) Net assets 171 ($952M)2024 Revenue 293 ($161M) Expenses 310 ($171M) Net assets 177 ($987M)
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Revenue (293)Expenses (310)Net assets (177)

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 $784M to $1.0B (+30%).

$613M
$579M
$699M
$793M
$885M
$784M
$1.0B
$1.1B
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 33% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$146k
’17
$7.5M
’18
$36M
’19
$34M
’20
$37M
’21
$41M
’22
$153M
’23
−$10M
’24
0.1
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.

Chief executive

Micah Kane

CEO & president

Board chair

Peter Ho

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed3536353537393634
Joined·+7+5+3+4+4+4+5
No longer listed·6632277
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 990 funders, grant income rose $4.3M → $66M.

158 of 1284 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1284 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.

Where its funders are

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 50 states in all.

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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. $104M arriving through sponsors registered in 40 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.

03Its place in the field

Government funding HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.

Federal$3.2M
grants $3.2Mcontracts $0
23
24
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$3.2M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Hcf Land Holding LLC · disregarded
  • Parker Ranch Foundation Trust · exempt
  • Cn Wodehouse Hawaii Children's Trust Fund · exempt
  • Robert E Black Memorial Trust · exempt
  • Prisanlee Trust · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII COMMUNITY 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1284 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,379,161 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($28,660,450). 240 of them have funded it in more than one year. HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1284 organizations giving $242,379,161 in grants to HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 240 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $28,660,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAWAII COMMUNITY 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.

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 1284 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing