Hawaii · Nonprofit
HOOKUAAINA
HOOKUAAINA (Hawaii) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,194,104 to it, the largest being HAU'OLI MAU LOA FOUNDATION ($593,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Hookuaaina does
Mission
Ho'okua'aina creates a culture of individual well-being and community waiwai through aloha 'aina.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
At risk youth mentoring program: this program is our primary program. At risk high school students are identified and referred by their schools. The students earn credits while working a traditional taro farm. They are mentored in life skills, work ethic, and job skills. Program activities are centered on the traditional hawaiian practice of cultivating kalo. Program activities incorporate personal reflection time, one-on-one time mentoring and interaction with the elderly, trained staff, non at risk peers and core "healthy" family from the community.the internship program: this is the 2nd phase of the mentoring program. If participants in the entry level program show interest and initiative they are invited to promote up into a paid position up to 16 hours per week where they will build upon the skills and values they have been working on. Interns are given greater kuleana to lead and host groups, harvest kalo, process poi, more job skills training related to farming, small business practices and customer service.
$290,743 spentof which $9,031 as grants$74,607 earned by the program50% of program spendingOutdoor learning center/education: ho'okua'aina provides an ideal outdoor learning classroom for students and schools from elementary up through the university level. Ho'okua'aina co-founder dean wilhelm is a certified department of education teacher with nearly 15 years of experience in the classroom. Hawaiian values-based lessons are used and can supplement standards-based curriculum for any grade and subject area. Schools and community organizations are able to bring students on field trips to see a traditional taro farm. They are taught hawaiian culture, science, natural resource management and sustainability. This program serves small groups as requested.
$290,742 spent$14,475 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $581,485.
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 2020 to 2021, from $964k to $1.4M (+42%).
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 23% · 2018 21% · 2019 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2022 23% · 2023 11% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of HOOKUAAINA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $125k → $261k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 HOOKUAAINA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
HOOKUAAINA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% · 2019 35% · 2020 28% · 2021 39% · 2022 36% · 2023 77% — 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
40% of HOOKUAAINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
67% of HOOKUAAINA's grant income 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
HOOKUAAINA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HOOKUAAINA
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 HOOKUAAINA: 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 HOOKUAAINA?
- HOOKUAAINA (Hawaii) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,194,104 to it, the largest being HAU'OLI MAU LOA FOUNDATION ($593,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOOKUAAINA have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,194,104 in grants to HOOKUAAINA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOOKUAAINA?
- HAU'OLI MAU LOA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $593,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOOKUAAINA 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 26 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