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KANU HAWAII

KANU HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,907 to it, the largest being HAROLD KL CASTLE FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$258k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$518k
Net assets
$207k
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Kanu Hawaii does

Mission

To help build communities that foster more sustainable compassionate civically engaged and resilent communities

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Volunteer week hawaii in april is the main focus of the organization. It is a statewide cross section campaign bringing together residents, visitors, non-profits, businesses, schools and govt agencies to serve hawaii s community taking grassroots action.

    $285,899 spent$249,524 earned by the program
    85% of program spending
  2. Pledge to our keiki is a committment to respect and care for the island places that keiki call home so that future generations to continue to enjoy all that hawaii has to offer.

    $42,906 spent$25,000 earned by the program
    13% of program spending
  3. Kokua exchange is a timebanking platform in which members participate in community development as they contribute to social economical and cultural equity through reciprocity.

    $7,500 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $336,305.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($153k) Expenses 100 ($247k) Net assets 100 ($168k)2018 Revenue 50 ($77k) Expenses 72 ($177k) Net assets 40 ($67k)2019 Revenue 131 ($201k) Expenses 65 ($161k) Net assets 64 ($107k)2020 Revenue 97 ($149k) Expenses 64 ($157k) Net assets 59 ($99k)2021 Revenue 147 ($226k) Expenses 92 ($228k) Net assets 58 ($97k)2022 Revenue 314 ($482k) Expenses 154 ($380k) Net assets 33 ($56k)2023 Revenue 271 ($417k) Expenses 188 ($464k) Net assets 5 ($8k)2024 Revenue 168 ($258k) Expenses 97 ($238k) Net assets 124 ($207k)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (97)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

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 $230k to $24k (−90%).

$188k
$84k
$118k
$99k
$97k
$230k
$24k
$222k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 67% · 2019 12% · 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 63% · 2023 71% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of KANU HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$93k
’17
−$100k
’18
$40k
’19
−$8k
’20
−$2k
’21
$103k
’22
−$47k
’23
$20k
’24
0.9
months of
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

Keone Kealoha

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed887666610
Joined·+0+0+3+0+1+0+6
No longer listed·0140102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $97k → $65k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 KANU HAWAII’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

KANU HAWAII has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

50% 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 KANU HAWAII.

29%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 87% · 2020 83% · 2021 66% · 2022 41% · 2023 62% — 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

50% of KANU HAWAII's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

70% of KANU HAWAII's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

CA
MO
VA
DC
HI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KANU HAWAII's revenue grew 68% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like KANU HAWAII

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 10%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

HI

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Questions and answers

Who funds KANU HAWAII?
KANU HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,907 to it, the largest being HAROLD KL CASTLE FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KANU HAWAII have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $517,907 in grants to KANU HAWAII, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KANU HAWAII?
HAROLD KL CASTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KANU HAWAII 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.

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 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