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Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation
Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,040 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $177k
What Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation does
Mission
To develop and sustain reliable non-appropriated funding sources and opportunities to empower Youth Challenge Academy students to dream, believe, achieve and succeed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided scholarships and grants to graduates of the Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge Academy for post-graduate education and employment training and provided funding for operational support.
$13,927 spent32% of program spendingSTARBASE Hawaii - to deliver science, technology, engineering and math STEM enrichment to the classrooms of at-risk youth in inner city/rural areas on behalf of the DOD through The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs OASD M&RA and state departments of defense. STARBASE Hawaii is the only STARBASE site in the state and is most immediately sponsored by the Hawaii Air National Guard. Program provides transportation for students to and from STARBASE sites.
$13,971 spent32% of program spendingCadet Support - Support provided to cadets of the Hawaii Youth Challenge Academy for various activities and supplies.
$15,899 spent36% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,797.
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 2017 to 2018, from $250k to $301k (+20%).
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.
100% of Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $260k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation’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 Youth Challenge Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
99% 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 Youth Challenge Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation
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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation: 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 Youth Challenge Foundation?
- Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,040 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $437,040 in grants to Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hawaii Youth Challenge Foundation 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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