Hawaii · Nonprofit
KAUAHEA INC
KAUAHEA INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,311 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($383,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $181k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Kauahea Inc does
Mission
Kauahea, inc. Supports hawaiian arts and culture, hawaiian spiritual practices, and the preservation and perpetuation of hawaiian language by providing access to learning opportunities throughout our community.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Kauahea, inc. Has participated successfully as an advisor and active participant in a variety of hula competitions such as the king kamehameha day, merrie monarch festival, queen ka`ahumanu festival, hula o na keiki, ku mai ka hula, and maui mall hula competition. Pa`u o hi`iaka, a program halau supported by Kauahea Inc., also participates in numerous cultural gatherings, ceremonies, workshops, conferences and performances. The organization offers classes for adults in kahiko (traditional hula), `auana (contemporary hula), hawaiian language, and hawaiian arts. Na kinimakalehua brings together kumu hula (hula masters) who create new performing art works, bringing forward the traditional and contemporary stories of hawaii. Cultural practitioners have opportunities to attend Kauahea Inc.s na lehuakumakua and hawaiian cultural practices institute programs which provides workshops, classes, and programs, focusing on deepening and expanding hawaiian cultural knowledge.
$67,026 spent80% of program spendingThe paeloko project provides monthly hands-on opportunities to put into practice the hawaiian value of malama aina or caring for the land.
$16,756 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,782.
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 2021 to 2022, from $94k to $170k (+82%).
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.
100% of KAUAHEA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $153k → $45.
1 of 7 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 KAUAHEA 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
KAUAHEA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 KAUAHEA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 94% · 2020 85% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
91% of KAUAHEA 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. $244 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
KAUAHEA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,317 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,317 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like KAUAHEA 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.
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 KAUAHEA 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 KAUAHEA INC?
- KAUAHEA INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,311 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($383,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KAUAHEA INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $447,311 in grants to KAUAHEA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAUAHEA INC?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $383,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAUAHEA 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 7 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