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HAWAII LITERACY INC

HAWAII LITERACY INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,785,949 to it, the largest being ROSE PERENIN FOUNDATION ($640,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.0M
Revenue FY2024
40
Funders on record
$1.8M
Grants received
$83k
Net assets
20/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($797k) Expenses 100 ($623k) Net assets 100 ($254k)2019 Revenue 105 ($840k) Expenses 115 ($714k) Net assets 154 ($391k)2020 Revenue 119 ($951k) Expenses 156 ($972k) Net assets 150 ($382k)2021 Revenue 150 ($1.2M) Expenses 163 ($1.0M) Net assets 214 ($544k)2022 Revenue 114 ($909k) Expenses 210 ($1.3M) Net assets 54 ($136k)2023 Revenue 97 ($776k) Expenses 152 ($945k) Net assets -13 ($-32581)2024 Revenue 126 ($1.0M) Expenses 143 ($890k) Net assets 33 ($83k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (126)Expenses (143)Net assets (33)

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 15% · 2019 26% · 2020 23% · 2021 53% · 2022 39% · 2023 54% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$174k
18
$126k
19
$21k
20
$177k
21
$400k
22
$169k
23
$115k
24
1.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $227k → $271k.

4 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)3% 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 LITERACY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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.

How concentrated its funding is

HAWAII LITERACY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

30% 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 LITERACY INC.

36%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 44% · 2019 45% · 2020 34% · 2021 34% · 2022 58% · 2023 30%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.

How long its funders stay

37% of HAWAII LITERACY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

51% of HAWAII LITERACY INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

WA
NY
NV
OH
CA
HI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HAWAII LITERACY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Hawaii

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 20%Fundraising 1%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

HI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII LITERACY INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HAWAII LITERACY INC?
HAWAII LITERACY INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,785,949 to it, the largest being ROSE PERENIN FOUNDATION ($640,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAWAII LITERACY INC have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,785,949 in grants to HAWAII LITERACY INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAWAII LITERACY INC?
ROSE PERENIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $640,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAWAII LITERACY INC 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing