Hawaii · Nonprofit
KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION
KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,512 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($450,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- First Hawaiian Bank Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Aloha United Way Incshared funderslocal
- Ac Kobayashi Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
66% of KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $277k → $59k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools). These are real filings, and they are not money KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 48% · 2019 36% · 2020 97% · 2021 55% · 2022 55% · 2023 58% — 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
33% of KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- First Hawaiian Bank Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchHI · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 107 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Aloha United Way Incshared funderslocalHI · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · funds 267 organizations near you
- Ac Kobayashi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hawaii Pacific Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yamada Scott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Strong Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James and Sally Zukerkorn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard M Towill Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Castiglione A Casauria Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patrick and Kris Kobayashi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The O L Moore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finance Factors Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Charles Reed Bishop Trust · exempt
- Kamehameha Schools · exempt
- Sino Finance Group · partnership
- Kayne Ks Crdt Fd LP · partnership
- Crescentks Ptnrshp · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION?
- KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,104,512 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($450,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,104,512 in grants to KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing