Hawaii · Nonprofit
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART (Hawaii) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,811,391 to it, the largest being STUPSKI FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 118
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $126M
What Honolulu Museum of Art does
Mission
To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The essential character of the Honolulu Museum of Art has always been grounded in three foundational elements: art of the highest quality, a firm belief in the power of art education, and a commitment to accessibility. Art of the highest quality knows no geographic boundaries or time parameters-it emerges from places both familiar and unfamiliar, and it can be found in the present moment and the distant past. Regardless of their origins, art works of the highest quality are united in that they embody incredible craftsmanship and express themes and ideas that are both timely to the moment in which they are created and convey a universal and lasting relevance. Similarly, art education does not have one mode of expression but is multi-faceted and dynamic; it spans a spectrum of engagement which ranges from the cerebral to the hands-on. Homa's long standing championship of art education has always sought to acknowledge and facilitate the broad range of ways that people are drawn into a life that is enriched by the arts and creativity, whether that be through intellectual engagement or hands-on art making. A commitment to accessibility is also a core characteristic that defines homa,…
$10,821,418 spent$1,598,189 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,821,418.
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 2021 to 2022, from $137M to $122M (−11%).
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 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Norton-Westbrook Halona
Director/CEO
Board chair
Michael Watanabe
Trustee & chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $674k → $2.4M.
10 of 118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.8M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Robert Allerton Endowment Fund Xxxxx7501). These are real filings, and they are not money HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART raised.
From the IRS filings of HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 funders by total. 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
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 37% · 2019 30% · 2020 23% · 2021 16% · 2022 31% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART'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
55% of HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART's funding base is broadening — from 32 funders to 43 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: 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 HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART?
- HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART (Hawaii) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,811,391 to it, the largest being STUPSKI FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $14,811,391 in grants to HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART?
- STUPSKI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 118 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing