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Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus
Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,975 to it, the largest being JOHN R HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND ($126,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $251k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $340k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus does
Mission
The mission of the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus is to educate, nuture and guide Hawaiis youth to establish a firm foundation of excellence in choral performance, establish a life-long appreciation of performing arts in Hawaiis youth and provide leadership in music education in Hawaii
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Choir provides music education and choral instruction to over 1200 children from kindergarden through high school from nearly 100 schools. The children participate either through weekly classes or through education outreach and festival programs. Participants range from beginners to Hawaiis finest young vocalists and musicians. The organization produces on average 20-30 concerts per year.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $196k to $131k (−33%).
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: 2019 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $26k → $43k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Youth Opera Chorus’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 Opera Chorus leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 39% · 2019 54% · 2020 49% · 2021 25% · 2022 37% · 2023 35% — 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
75% of Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus: 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 Opera Chorus?
- Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,975 to it, the largest being JOHN R HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND ($126,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $339,975 in grants to Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus?
- JOHN R HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $126,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 18 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