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HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION

HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,927 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($45,927). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$184k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$62k
Net assets
$476k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Ho'Ea - the Foundation does

Mission

The specific purpose of Ho'ea - The Foundation is to provide grants to selected charitable, religious, and educational organizations that have demonstrated dedication and excellence in their respective mission. As a policy of the Foundation, all recipient organizations must be organized as either a nonprofit foundation or a corporation which is operated exclusively for charitable purposes and which has established its status as a tax-exempt organization and a public charity under Section50l(c)(3) and 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The Foundation has sponsored the Unity Prom since 2019. The Unity Prom event is to provide students with special education an opportunity to celebrate a young person's coming of age and the same experience which the general education students have in High School.

    $27,733 spent
    92% of program spending
  2. Ho'ea - The Foundation made a total contribution, sponsorship, scholarship and grant in the amount of $13,066 to support the community and other nonprofit organizations in year 2024.

    $0 spentof which $13,066 as grants
    0% of program spending
  3. The Foundation also supports the Maui Strong program for the recovery from the 2023 Maui wildfires.

    $2,500 spent
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,233.

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 ($26k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2018 Revenue 200 ($52k) Expenses 172 ($29k) Net assets 141 ($82k)2020 Revenue 388 ($101k) Expenses 138 ($23k) Net assets 355 ($206k)2021 Revenue 227 ($59k) Expenses 284 ($47k) Net assets 376 ($218k)2022 Revenue 184 ($48k) Expenses 132 ($22k) Net assets 421 ($244k)2023 Revenue 161 ($42k) Expenses 268 ($45k) Net assets 468 ($271k)2024 Revenue 702 ($184k) Expenses 292 ($49k) Net assets 819 ($476k)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (702)Expenses (292)Net assets (819)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 $271k to $476k (+75%).

$58k
$82k
$206k
$218k
$244k
$271k
$476k
2017201820202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

’17
’18
$78k
’20
$12k
’21
$26k
’22
−$3k
’23
$135k
’24
13
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.

20172018
Listed55
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 HO'EA - THE 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

HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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

92% 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 HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION.

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
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

92% of HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Hawaii funders.

HI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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

HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin73% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like HO'EA - THE 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.

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Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

66%

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 HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION?
HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,927 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($45,927). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $61,927 in grants to HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HO'EA - THE FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,927 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HO'EA - THE 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.

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