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HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC

HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$475k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$11k
Grants received
$324k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Against its field

HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,762 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve10.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,762 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($202k) Expenses 100 ($151k) Net assets 100 ($275k)2018 Revenue 132 ($268k) Expenses 148 ($223k) Net assets 108 ($297k)2019 Revenue 96 ($195k) Expenses 202 ($305k) Net assets 68 ($187k)2020 Revenue 32 ($65k) Expenses 92 ($138k) Net assets 41 ($114k)2021 Revenue 22 ($44k) Expenses 14 ($21k) Net assets 50 ($137k)2022 Revenue 76 ($154k) Expenses 65 ($99k) Net assets 70 ($192k)2023 Revenue 141 ($286k) Expenses 193 ($291k) Net assets 68 ($186k)2024 Revenue 205 ($415k) Expenses 245 ($370k) Net assets 84 ($232k)2025 Revenue 235 ($475k) Expenses 254 ($383k) Net assets 118 ($324k)
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Revenue (235)Expenses (254)Net assets (118)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,530 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
17
$45k
18
$110k
19
$73k
20
$23k
21
$55k
22
$5k
23
$45k
24
$92k
25
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC’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 STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

91% 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 STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

HI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 2 funders put you under-funded 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 STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES 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

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

85%

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 STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES 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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Questions and answers

Who funds HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC?
HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,000 in grants to HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC.
Who is the largest funder of HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES INC?
TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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