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HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING

HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING (Hawaii) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $618,199 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$168k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$618k
Net assets
$41k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 93%
01What it does

What Hawaii Women in Filmmaking does

Mission

Educate and encourage women and girls to tell stories and express themselves through film.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Fiscal Sponsorship - As a fiscal sponsor, Hawaii Women in Filmmaking (HWF) collects and administers public donations on behalf of film projects. Public donations, less an administrative fee, are then remitted to filmmakers to fund their film projects. in 2025, HWF provided fiscal sponsorship funding to two filmmakers. One film project was a documentary about a female Olympic athlete. The other film project recounted a story form native Hawaiian mythology.

    $25,218 spentof which $25,218 as grants
    53% of program spending
  2. Reel Camp for Girls - HWF provides a "hands on" workshop environment to educate youth to tell their own stories and experiences through filmmaking. In 2025, HWF put on one camp for five students, who completed one film, which was subsequently publicly shown as an entry in the Hawaii International Film Festival's spring showing.

    $10,410 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. Women of Wonder (WoW) Film Festival - This annual film festival highlights and celebrates the lives and accomplishments of women from around the world. The 2025 WoW film festival was screened by 100+ attendees and featured 27 short films which were about women, featured women and/or were created by women.

    $1,981 spent
    4% of program spending
  4. All Other programs

    $9,844 spent
    21% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,453.

02The 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 ($169k) Expenses 100 ($130k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2018 Revenue 68 ($116k) Expenses 94 ($122k) Net assets 87 ($44k)2019 Revenue 85 ($145k) Expenses 92 ($120k) Net assets 138 ($70k)2020 Revenue 58 ($99k) Expenses 72 ($93k) Net assets 149 ($76k)2021 Revenue 161 ($273k) Expenses 210 ($272k) Net assets 149 ($76k)2022 Revenue 202 ($342k) Expenses 261 ($339k) Net assets 155 ($79k)2023 Revenue 219 ($371k) Expenses 257 ($334k) Net assets 228 ($116k)2024 Revenue 84 ($143k) Expenses 190 ($247k) Net assets 23 ($12k)2025 Revenue 99 ($168k) Expenses 102 ($133k) Net assets 81 ($41k)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (102)Net assets (81)Peer revenue range

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 $122k to $52k (−57%).

$51k
$57k
$70k
$112k
$90k
$97k
$122k
$52k
$42k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 26% · 2022 54% · 2023 32% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
’17
−$7k
’18
$25k
’19
$5k
’20
$148
’21
$3k
’22
$37k
’23
−$104k
’24
$36k
’25
2.0
months of
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.

2021202220232024
Listed17687
Joined·+0+3+2
No longer listed·1113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $156k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 WOMEN IN FILMMAKING’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 WOMEN IN FILMMAKING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

47% 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 WOMEN IN FILMMAKING.

28%
largest funder
64%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 55% · 2021 70% · 2022 50% · 2023 64% — 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

60% of HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 WOMEN IN FILMMAKING draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states in all.

NY
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. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING?
HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING (Hawaii) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $618,199 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $618,199 in grants to HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING?
NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING 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 9 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