Hawaii · Nonprofit
KAULUAKALANA
KAULUAKALANA (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,364,212 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($752,703). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $861k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $807k
What Kauluakalana does
Mission
Our mission is to restore and grow healthy relationships between people and place through the aloha 'aina practices of retelling our kailua-specific stories, replanting and eating our ancestral foods, and caring for the sacred sites, lands, and waters of our beloved ahupua'a of kailua.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ulupo & aina general: our ulupo program focuses on land restoration and resource management activities at ulupo nui, our primary 'aina program site in kailua, o'ahu. Activities include removal of invasive species, planting of native species, soil remediation and revitalization, expanding the cultivation of kalo and other food crops, and caring for ulupo heiau and other rock structures as part of an ancient agricultural complex. We engage our community in these activities in order to raise awareness regarding the balanced and respectful use of our natural resources in kailua. In 2024, we maintained 35 lo'I kalo (wetland taro patches) and cleared 400 square feet of the ulupo heiau rock structure of invasive weeds.
$459,400 spent$149,016 earned by the program82% of program spendingKa pahuhopu o kawainui: this is an out-of-school, hawaiian culture based, 'olelo-rich, 'aina education program designed for middle school to early high school-aged learners from kailua and neighboring ahupua'a in ko'olaupoko, o'ahu. The program focuses on engaging youth with cultural practitioners from our community in intergenerational transfer of hawaiian knowledge and practices including story-telling, mele, food cultivation and preparation, and community-based land stewardship and restoration.
$57,328 spent$850 earned by the program10% of program spendingPili mai & kuokoa: (meaning "to come together") brings together families and educators to facilitate their reconnection to haloa (the first kalo plant and elder sibling of the hawaiian people), each other, and our homeland in order to celebrate, inspire, and organize the regeneration of our community around the cultural practices of poi making. The primary component of this program is a multi-month program for a cohort of kailua-connected families and educators, centered around learning and perpetuating the process of growing, harvesting, preparing, and pounding kalo into poi. Participation is by invitation only. The culminating activity is the families host a kalo pounding tent at a community gathering in celebration of la kuokoa where they teach other families how to make poi.
$41,474 spent$25,405 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $558,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $392k to $785k (+100%).
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 16% · 2021 32% · 2022 20% · 2023 6% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of KAULUAKALANA’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. 0 of the last 5 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
Bert Kaleo Wong
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $152k → $587k.
1 of 18 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 KAULUAKALANA’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
KAULUAKALANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 KAULUAKALANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 47% · 2022 52% · 2023 39% — 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
20% of KAULUAKALANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
80% of KAULUAKALANA's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73 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
KAULUAKALANA 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 KAULUAKALANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $984k on record.
- Department of the Interior$984k
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 KAULUAKALANA
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 KAULUAKALANA: 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 KAULUAKALANA?
- KAULUAKALANA (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,364,212 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($752,703). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KAULUAKALANA have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,364,212 in grants to KAULUAKALANA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAULUAKALANA?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $752,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAULUAKALANA 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 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