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Hawaiis Volcano Circus
Hawaiis Volcano Circus (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,159 to it, the largest being HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $625k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $764k
What Hawaiis Volcano Circus does
Mission
To organize, and maintain a company of performing circus artists for educational, instructive and entertainment purposes while owning and operating a cultural and educational center for arts and agriculture
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Seaview Performing Arts Center for Education provides classes in circus arts and other cultural activities. Approximately 40 people per week attend classes.
$41,525 spent$8,930 earned by the program41% of program spendingHawaii Island Community Circus Unity Project operates a children's summer day camp lasting 5 days. Approximately 25 children attend each camp held.
$21,771 spent$8,682 earned by the program22% of program spendingLocal charter school Hawaii Academy of Arts and Sciences operates out of the facilities provided by HVC.
$15,201 spent$23,800 earned by the program15% of program spendingPuna Strong assists with disaster readiness and community resilience as part of the county recovery efforts in the wake of the 2018 Kilauea Volcano eruption.
$13,554 spent13% of program spendingOut On a Limb is a multi-pronged community agriculture program. We offer workshops on food cultivation and fruit tree care we organize and conduct Micro Farm tours in the neighborhood so novices can learn from local experts and we organize a gleaning program, where homeowners can donate tree crops and volunteers pick the fruit and distribute it in the community where 25 of families live below the poverty line. We have also, with the help of volunteers and other organizations, built community gardens at SPACE, with organized monthly work parties and harvests with families in the community
$8,972 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $101,023.
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 2023 to 2024, from $368k to $773k (+110%).
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: 2024 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Hawaiis Volcano Circus’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Henrik Bothe
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $40 → $43.
1 of 2 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 Hawaiis Volcano Circus’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
Hawaiis Volcano Circus leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
100% 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 Hawaiis Volcano Circus.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Hawaiis Volcano Circus's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Hawaiis Volcano Circus runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,356 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Hawaiis Volcano Circus
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
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hawaiis Volcano Circus: 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 Hawaiis Volcano Circus?
- Hawaiis Volcano Circus (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,159 to it, the largest being HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hawaiis Volcano Circus have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,159 in grants to Hawaiis Volcano Circus, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hawaiis Volcano Circus?
- HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hawaiis Volcano Circus 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 2 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