Hawaii · Nonprofit
Hawaii Lions Foundation
Hawaii Lions Foundation (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,454 to it, the largest being MAY MITCHELL ROYAL FOUNDATION ($146,667). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $627k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $182k
- Net assets
- $849k
What Hawaii Lions Foundation does
Mission
Hlf-mission: the Hawaii Lions Foundation serves as a charitable tax exempt organization that promotes programs towards improving and expanding services to sight and hearing-impaired persons while enhancing the image of lionism throughout the state of hawaii. It is an body of people committed to providing the highest quality of ocular tissue for transplantation organ and tissue donation all in a caring and continuously improving manner.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our two highest annual service accomplishments this fiscal year centers around the following program activities: program-1 increasing services and awareness of those services to the sight and hearing impaired. Program-2 providing ocular tissue transplantation through tissue donation in a caring and continuously improving manner.
$186,882 spentof which $163,987 as grants$15,600 earned by the program50% of program spendingOur two highest annual service accomplishments this fiscal year centers around the following program activities: program-1 increasing services and awareness of those services to the sight and hearing impaired. Program-2 providing ocular tissue transplantation through tissue donation in a caring and continuously improving manner.
$186,882 spentof which $163,987 as grants$15,600 earned by the program50% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $373,764.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $2.0M (+58%).
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.
86% of Hawaii Lions Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 $0 → $50k.
1 of 6 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 Lions 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 Lions Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2018 85% · 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 90% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Hawaii Lions Foundation draws 81% 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. $427 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 Lions Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Hawaii Lions 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hawaii Lions 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 Lions Foundation?
- Hawaii Lions Foundation (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,454 to it, the largest being MAY MITCHELL ROYAL FOUNDATION ($146,667). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hawaii Lions Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $182,454 in grants to Hawaii Lions Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hawaii Lions Foundation?
- MAY MITCHELL ROYAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $146,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hawaii Lions 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 6 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