Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (Hawaii) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,035,467 to it, the largest being ROBERT E BLACK MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,673,300). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $151M
- Funders on record
- 93
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $62M
What Hawaii Pacific University does
Mission
Hawaii Pacific University is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. Students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. Our innovative undergraduate and graduate programs anticipate the changing needs of the community and prepare our graduates to live, work, and learn as active members of a global society. The university is a co-educational and independent university comprised of three campuses on the island of oahu; the downtown honolulu campus, the windward hawaii loa campus and the makapuu campus. Graduate and undergraduate programs are offered at the windward hawaii loa campus and at the honolulu downtown campus. In addition to the three main campuses, the university delivers select degree programs at military installations around oahu.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The university provides higher education services to approximately 5000 students. Grants are primarily merit and need-based scholarships provided to students.
$110,902,159 spentof which $39,868,814 as grants$137,329,811 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $110,902,159.
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 2020 to 2021, from $167M to $252M (+51%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 12% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Lance Wilhelm
Trustee, board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $88k → $2.4M.
8 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 PACIFIC UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 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 PACIFIC UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
37% 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 PACIFIC UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 23% · 2019 75% · 2020 25% · 2021 38% · 2022 40% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
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
83% of HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38.8M on record — $38.8M federal, $16k state.
- Department of Education$22.7M
- National Science Foundation$4.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.9M
- Department of Commerce$3.6M
- Department of Labor$1.8M
- Department of Agriculture$1.1M
- DE$14k
- OK$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hawaii Lifestyle Retail Properties LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: 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 PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
- HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (Hawaii) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,035,467 to it, the largest being ROBERT E BLACK MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,673,300). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $7,035,467 in grants to HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
- ROBERT E BLACK MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,673,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 93 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