Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION
HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,000 to it, the largest being The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Hawaii Justice Foundation does
Mission
To facilitate the public's knowledge and understanding of the law, provide legal aid to the poor and improve the administration of justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Interest on lawyers' trust account (iolta) program and indigent legal assistance fund (ilaf) program: under the iolta program, interest earned on funds retained by lawyers in trust for their clients is used by the foundation for legal assistance to the poor, improving the program administration of justice, and other programs for the benefit of the public as specifically approved by the supreme court of hawaii for exclusive public purposes. Effective july 1, 1991, supreme court rule 11 required mandatory participation in the iolta program by all attorneys licensed to practice in the state of hawaii. Under the ilaf program, the foundation serves as the ilaf adminstrator and oversees the process where surcharges are collected on certain filing fees in the state of hawaii judicial system. These funds are retained by the judiciary for distribution to qualified low-income service providers under the statutory formula.
$3,363,383 spentof which $3,283,131 as grants$6,636,443 earned by the program96% of program spendingGrantees for the primary purpose of helping children in hawaii who are low-income and in need of assistance.
$135,000 spentof which $135,000 as grants4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,498,383.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.9M to $11M (+64%).
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.
1% of HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION’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 JUSTICE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 88% · 2023 88% — 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
HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 JUSTICE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HAWAII JUSTICE 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII JUSTICE 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 JUSTICE FOUNDATION?
- HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,000 to it, the largest being The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $292,000 in grants to HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION?
- The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII JUSTICE 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 4 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