Hawaii · Nonprofit
HUI O LAKA
HUI O LAKA (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,668 to it, the largest being WAIMAKUA FOUNDATION ($44,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $644k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $914k
What Hui O Laka does
Mission
To preserve hawaiian history & nature, specifically to nurture the connection between people and kokee through interpretation and stewardship that engages all in a spirit of appreciation and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hui O Laka (hol)continues the long-term renovation of the 90 year old historic civilian conservation corps camp (ccc camp) at kokee which is on both the national & state registers of historic places. It's the only extant ccc camp in the state & one of the few in the nation. The completed buildings serve as Hui O Laka's administrative & program headquarters and provide overnight accomodations for volunteers, researchers, schools & retreats. Hol is increasing partnerships with conservation & educational groups to provide retreats and forest preservation activities in kokee.
$187,920 spent$130,743 earned by the program41% of program spendingHol operates the kokee natural history museum as the primary visitor information center for waimea canyon & kokee state parks as there is no government funding for its operations nor a park ranger. The museum is open daily and free to the public. The museum typically greets 70,000 visitors annually. The 2,000 square foot exhibit area is continually refreshed and contains information on the native flora, fauna and geology. Newer exhibits include the history of the kokee area from hawaiian culture to activities in the park today. A 24-square foot hiking trail map with descriptions of each trail is posted outside and accessible 24 hours a day.
$271,965 spent$366,698 earned by the program59% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $459,885.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $606k to $802k (+32%).
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: 2018 6% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 36% · 2022 6% · 2023 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of HUI O LAKA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $22k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HUI O LAKA’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
HUI O LAKA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 HUI O LAKA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 55% · 2020 45% · 2021 33% · 2022 33% · 2023 46% — 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 HUI O LAKA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of HUI O LAKA's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153 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
HUI O LAKA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HUI O LAKA
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 HUI O LAKA: 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 HUI O LAKA?
- HUI O LAKA (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,668 to it, the largest being WAIMAKUA FOUNDATION ($44,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HUI O LAKA have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $168,668 in grants to HUI O LAKA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUI O LAKA?
- WAIMAKUA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUI O LAKA 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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