Hawaii · Nonprofit
KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,016 to it, the largest being HAROLD KL CASTLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $213k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Kanaka Economic Development Alliance does
Mission
The Kanaka Economic Development Alliance ("KEDA") is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower the Native Hawaiian community and improve our collective livelihoods and the life of the land through self-led economic development. At KEDA, we support development that promotes equality, inclusivity, and all of our diversity as a people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The KEDA Capacity Building Program - this program focuses on the Native Hawaiian entrepreneurial community as a locus for achieving economic well-being that increases Native Hawaiian wealth and income levels in an equitable manner. This program's goals are to increase the visibility and operational capacity of Native Hawaiian owned businesses and Business Development Organizations that serve Native Hawaiians.
$176,630 spent$54,187 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,630.
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 $68k to $189k (+177%).
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: 2022 100% · 2023 71% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE’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. 3 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
Kelea Levy
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $11.
1 of 2 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 KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE’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
KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 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
KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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
Government funding KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $580k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$580k
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 KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: 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 KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE?
- KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,016 to it, the largest being HAROLD KL CASTLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,016 in grants to KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE?
- HAROLD KL CASTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANAKA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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 2 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