Hawaii · Nonprofit
HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE
HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE (Hawaii) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,954 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($230,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $902k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $412k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Holualoa Foundation for Arts & Culture does
Mission
The donkey mill art center is a place of convergence for the exploration of arts and culture to inform, inspire and strengthen individual and collective well-being. We are committed to establishing west hawai'I as a model of a resilient, thriving community where art is considered a necessity, not a luxury.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The donkey mill art center provides hands-on classes, exhibitions and events of contemporary visual arts, crafts and culture, on campus and in local public schools. Our 2.6 acre campus includes dedicated studios for printmaking, ceramics, fiber arts, metals and youth education activities; and flexible classroom/gathering spaces, gallery, gift shop and a garden of native fibers and dye plants. Hosting visiting artists from around the world, collaborating with partner organizations, and offering discounted and free programs are part of our growing impact.
$730,411 spent$379,415 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $730,411.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+28%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 4% · 2019 8% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 10% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $60k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE’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
HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 67% · 2022 90% · 2023 66% — 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 HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
62% of HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE'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 $158k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE: 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 HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE?
- HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE (Hawaii) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,954 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($230,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $411,954 in grants to HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE 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 12 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