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HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII

HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,338,820 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($14,176,654). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$9.6M
Revenue FY2025
79
Funders on record
$23M
Grants received
$54M
Net assets
51/79 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Against its field

HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve31.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($8.8M) Expenses 100 ($8.4M) Net assets 100 ($43M)2020 Revenue 97 ($8.6M) Expenses 96 ($8.1M) Net assets 101 ($44M)2021 Revenue 105 ($9.3M) Expenses 87 ($7.3M) Net assets 108 ($47M)2022 Revenue 117 ($10M) Expenses 94 ($7.9M) Net assets 111 ($48M)2023 Revenue 114 ($10M) Expenses 102 ($8.5M) Net assets 116 ($50M)2024 Revenue 116 ($10M) Expenses 104 ($8.6M) Net assets 121 ($52M)2025 Revenue 109 ($9.6M) Expenses 101 ($8.5M) Net assets 126 ($54M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (109)Expenses (101)Net assets (126)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 40% · 2020 41% · 2021 44% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$466k
19
$507k
20
$2.0M
21
$2.4M
22
$1.6M
23
$1.6M
24
$1.2M
25
31
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 29 funders, grant income fell $3.7M → $2.3M.

8 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $293k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Aloha United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII raised.

From the IRS filings of HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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 PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65% 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 PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII.

61%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 69% · 2019 77% · 2020 57% · 2021 62% · 2022 44% · 2023 62%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

45% of HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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

HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 15 states in all.

AK
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
HI
TX

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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 79 funders put you well-backed 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 PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII

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

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 15%Fundraising 11%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 1 state

HI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: 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 PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII?
HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,338,820 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($14,176,654). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII have?
IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $23,338,820 in grants to HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII?
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $14,176,654 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 79funders 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