Hawaii · Nonprofit
KA'ALA FARM INC
KA'ALA FARM INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200,214 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($885,636). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $862k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $718k
What Ka'Ala Farm Inc does
Mission
To promote and encourage public interest in and support for diversified agriculture; creation of a demonstration farm that serves as a focal point for disseminating traditional farming techniques, foster an appreciation of the traditional cultural concept of the ahupua'a and encourage and support youth agriculture training programs and other educational endeavours.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cultural learning center: the cultural learning center provides hands-on, hawaiian cultural educational experiences to students of all ages with a primary focus on the traditional ahupuaa system (traditional hawaiian land division and way of living).
$269,879 spent37% of program spendingSchool partnerships: the school partnerships program works with schools and other educational programs to target alternative ways of learning. The program provides science-based cultural, and sustainable, hands-on workshops and activities.
$49,962 spent7% of program spendingMasi (malamaaina summer internship) program. This program works with high school students of the waianae coast. Students participate in an stipend paid intense 7 week program led by kaala farm staff and cultural practitioners. Students learn the hawaiian cultural way of life while learning about themselves and where they come from.
$400,911 spent55% of program spendingEducational demonstrations and sale of cultural and educational products.
$8,974 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $729,726.
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.
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 $428k to $649k (+52%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 63% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 held at 2 funders, grant income rose $101k → $211k.
From the IRS filings of KA'ALA FARM INC’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
KA'ALA FARM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 KA'ALA FARM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 96% · 2019 89% · 2020 87% · 2021 83% · 2022 64% · 2023 53% — 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
25% of KA'ALA FARM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
97% of KA'ALA FARM INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding KA'ALA FARM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.8M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$198k
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 KA'ALA FARM INC
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
96% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KA'ALA FARM INC: 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 KA'ALA FARM INC?
- KA'ALA FARM INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200,214 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($885,636). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KA'ALA FARM INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,200,214 in grants to KA'ALA FARM INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KA'ALA FARM INC?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $885,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KA'ALA FARM INC 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 10 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