Hawaii · Nonprofit
IWIKUA
IWIKUA (Hawaii) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $964,166 to it, the largest being STUPSKI FOUNDATION ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $567k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $964k
- Net assets
- $501k
What Iwikua does
Mission
Iwikua serves as an educational and cultural resource for sustainable food production, wellness, and community enhancement to benefit west kauai and help raise future generations to be culturally-centered life-long learners who fulfill active roles in the community such as farmers, educators, and leaders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Iwikua has a holistic view of wellness which integrates cultural connection as well as mental and physical strength. Our community health facility, makana training center (mtc), is open to members each day and also provides weekly group fitness classes. Over the year, our student and adult volunteers and interns aided in the operations of the center and also had the opportunity to learn work training through customer service, utilizing the member management software, basic gym equipment maintenance and repair, and construction as we expanded our space. Mtc offers an age-inclusive track camp during the summer, as well as a basketball skills training camp with professional players who come to serve as mentors during the week. We also have a work-trade program for student athletes and adult community members to utilize the gym at no cost. Track club participants, gym goers, and community members also volunteer in Iwikua-hosted community runs and fitness competitions that bring over 400 community competitors together throughout the year.
$185,368 spent$65,733 earned by the program64% of program spendingNa mahi ho'oko a'e is the educational farm program of Iwikua that focuses on sustainable food production, integrating traditional hawaiian gardening techniques with modern technology through the operation of our large-scale aquaponics system and in-ground crops. We provided a variety of fruits and vegetables to our west kauai community members at large through our mini grocery store, as well as thirteen restaurants and businesses and the local hospital. Over the year we worked with high school and college students during school breaks to do intensive internships where they were immersed in the entirety of the farm operation, from seed to sale, helping with planting, harvesting, packaging, marketing, and distribution, as well as learning construction skills throughout the expansion of our farm system. We also had over 75 volunteers throughout the year from high school and college classes that integrated their curriculum into a hands-on application on the farm. These efforts helped produce over 16,000 pounds of produce (including over 14,000 pounds of lettuce) which went directly into feeding the community while providing a unique agricultural and entrepreneurial experience for our…
$99,250 spent34% of program spendingIwi camp is focused on integrating important cultural protocols and lessons with hawaiian language, and implementing ancestral farming methodology and values. In previous years, iwi camp was focused on cultural exchange between our youth and other indigenous communities. In 2023 we hosted a group of 28 students from a youth urban farm program in oakland, ca. They were able to interact with our interns and community and were hands-on in developing infrastructure, as well as collaboratively designing and completing a large-scale mural inside our fitness center in partnership with a local art program. Iwikua also brought eight local high school student athletes to montana to work with the honor bound program at montana state university as well as volunteer at the annual powwow. They also competed in a track meet and met with the coaches and athletics staff to learn what opportunities are available to athletes looking to pursue higher education. These students were able to experience a new area and forged great connections with another culture and community.
$5,549 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $290,167.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $253k to $580k (+129%).
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: 2021 18% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of IWIKUA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Joshua Mori
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50k → $407k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 IWIKUA’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
IWIKUA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 IWIKUA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 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
29% of IWIKUA's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% 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
IWIKUA draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
IWIKUA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like IWIKUA
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
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 IWIKUA: 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 IWIKUA?
- IWIKUA (Hawaii) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $964,166 to it, the largest being STUPSKI FOUNDATION ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IWIKUA have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $964,166 in grants to IWIKUA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IWIKUA?
- STUPSKI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IWIKUA 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 13 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