Hawaii · Nonprofit
KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA
KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,601,843 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($8,301,541). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $143k
What Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana does
Mission
Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Educational support primarily administered through charter schools in hawaii, which served approximately 4,668 students. Kalo programs include malamapoki'I preschool, kahoiwai teacher certification and afterschool and summer school as well as support to 17 hawaiian-focused charter schools through na lei na'auao alliance for native hawaiian education. In 2024 kalo served 6,000 program participants.
$9,764,240 spentof which $7,066,767 as grants$1,558,092 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,764,240.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $16M (+4%).
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: 2017 50% · 2018 37% · 2019 46% · 2020 55% · 2021 57% · 2022 60% · 2023 74% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Taffi Wise
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $146k.
2 of 6 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 KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA’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 O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 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 KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA's revenue grew 43% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.4M on record.
- Department of Education$11.7M
- Department of the Interior$5.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.7M
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 KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA
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
94% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ka Huli Mua LLC · disregarded
- Ahu Ili · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA: 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 KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA?
- KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,601,843 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($8,301,541). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $8,601,843 in grants to KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $8,301,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA 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 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing