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HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,027 to it, the largest being Restoring Lifeways ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $242k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $129k
- Net assets
- $200k
What Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice does
Mission
The Primary exempt purpose of the company is education to generate evidence-based knowledge, to identify best practices on how the public can access justice, be civically engaged, and receive law related education, and to research, identify, and seek to implement programs to improve restorative justice. This is continued in Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
GIA Huikahi Training. The GIA is to train community facilitators to provide Huikahi reentry planning circles for people in prison or who are transitioning from prison back into the community. The process has been well researched and is an established evidence based approach for assisting people reentering the community after incarceration. The Huikahi process has been replicated in other states and countries. We are also scaling up the program with the GIA and hoped to hand it over to a non-profit in Hawai'i that provides services to the incarcerated-WorkNet, Inc., to provide the program after June 2025-but to date it hasn't.
$78,571 spentof which $120,000 as grants$41,429 earned by the program49% of program spendingESD. The purpose of this funding is to prevent the use of Electronic Smoking Devices (ESDs) by Hawai'i youth under age 18. ESDs, which include e-cigarettes, mods, vapes, and any similar devices containing nicotine or other substances, have been a growing concern. Prevention services under this grant will utilize the Stanford REACH Lab's Tobacco Prevention Toolkit.
$46,469 spentof which $60,525 as grants$14,056 earned by the program29% of program spendingKalihi Leadership. KLA aims to empower youth living in low-income communities, specifically Kalihi Valley Homes (KVH) and the Towers at Kuhio Park (KPT), by linking them with caring adult mentors and providing positive development activities. It primarily serves middle school and high school students (ages 5-18), many of whom are from Native Hawaiian or Compact of Free Association (COFA) origin families. The program focuses on academic assistance, leadership development, mindfulness practices, physical fitness, and culturally relevant workshops.
$15,621 spentof which $1,000 as grants$-14,621 earned by the program10% of program spendingWomen's Fund. The Women's Fund grant covered tuition for 11 college correspondence courses, all the courses' required books, and administrative support for three incarcerated women to take classes leading to bachelor's degrees.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants6% of program spendingThe Girl's Group provides meaningful programming for girls. Many incarcerated women commonly lack educational attainment past the 4th grade. One key objective for the KLA Girls Group will be helping the girls maintain good academic standing.
$5,561 spentof which $10,000 as grants$4,439 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe remaining programs include the following. 5k Run, College Scholarship, Drew Breen Scholarship, Hawaii DOE, Kapilipono Program, OHA Parole, Running Club, Turbin Chu Scholarship, and Ulana Ea, and HSBF Family Law.
$5,348 spentof which $48,915 as grants$43,567 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $161,570.
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.
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 $113k to $265k (+134%).
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: 2023 34% · 2024 23% · 2025 74%. 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 7 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
Lorenn Walker
Executive Director
Board chair
Leela Bilmes Goldstein
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $65k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE’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 FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
47% 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 FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
53% of HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Organizations like HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: 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 FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE?
- HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,027 to it, the largest being Restoring Lifeways ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $129,027 in grants to HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE?
- Restoring Lifeways is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 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 10 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