California · Nonprofit
Hawaii Leadership Forum
Hawaii Leadership Forum (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Hawaii Leadership Forum does
Mission
The Hawaii Leadership Forum is dedicated to developing, engaging, and inspiring leaders to drive impact and catalyze positive change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Leaders Lab - Leaders Lab is a new initiative started in 2024 that provides a more accessible way for emerging leaders to further their leadership skills to meet the challenges of today. The 2024 Labs were organized into five thematic groups that convened on Oahu as part of one-day, annual intensives over three years: Community Organizers & Nonprofit Leaders; Educators & Academic Leaders; Health, Science, and Technology Leaders; Entrepreneurs, Business, and Labor Leaders; and Public Officials and Government Leaders. The five Labs had 99 participants in total and were each co-facilitated by 3 Omidyar Fellows.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Omidyar Fellows - In 2024, sixteen Omidyar Fellows were selected for Cohort IX and their 9-month curriculum kicked off in September. The curriculum develops stronger leaders, more effective organizations, and cross-sector connections that are necessary to collectively create broad and durable improvements in Hawaii. Fellows continue with 3 Practicum sessions after the initial curriculum phase as change agents in service to address the most significant problems facing Hawaii as part of the Forum of Fellows Network. This ongoing and enduring element of the Omidyar Fellows program fosters further collaboration and continues to equip Fellows with the skills and supports that enable them to improve the quality of life for Hawaii's residents.
$2,356,586 spent94% of program spendingLeaders Lab - Leaders Lab is a new initiative started in 2024 that provides a more accessible way for emerging leaders to further their leadership skills to meet the challenges of today. The 2024 Labs were organized into five thematic groups that convened on Oahu as part of one-day, annual intensives over three years: Community Organizers & Nonprofit Leaders; Educators & Academic Leaders; Health, Science, and Technology Leaders; Entrepreneurs, Business, and Labor Leaders; and Public Officials and Government Leaders. The five Labs had 99 participants in total and were each co-facilitated by 3 Omidyar Fellows.
$128,876 spent5% of program spendingSystems Sensing and Impact - Facilitated systems thinking, mapping, and other systems practices to gain clarity on complex issues, identify leverage points for systems change, inform strategic intent, create learning and adaption plans, and expand collaborative opportunities.
$18,409 spentof which $14,745 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,503,871.
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 $1.5M to $2.1M (+42%).
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.
100% of Hawaii Leadership Forum’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $50k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Leadership Forum’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Hawaii Leadership Forum's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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.
Against its field
Hawaii Leadership Forum runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Hawaii Leadership Forum
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% 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 Leadership Forum: 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 Leadership Forum?
- Hawaii Leadership Forum (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Hawaii Leadership Forum have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to Hawaii Leadership Forum, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hawaii Leadership Forum?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hawaii Leadership Forum find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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