Hawaii · Nonprofit
KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO
KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO (Hawaii) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,288 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($399,201). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $633k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Ke Kula Nui O Waimanalo does
Mission
Provide a community of practice through collaboration of kanaka to promote strong and healthy ahupua'a
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Malama aquaponics: the malama aquaponics a study tested backyard aquaponics program with native hawaiian families living in waimanalo to promote healthy eating and reduce overall health. Aquaponics bring fish and plants together in one closed sustainable system to create a mini ahupua'a in families backyards to provide constant access to vegetables, fruit, and fish.
$155,642 spent32% of program spendingGods country waimanalo: the gods country waimanalo program strives to strengthen and perpetuate everything that is waimanalo. The main focus of this program is to engage hawaiian families in programs that are grounded in hawaiian cultural knowledge, practices and values. A second focus of this program is food security, food sovereignty and food safety through food distribution, active agroforestry food-forest deployment and workshops, and ai pono and laau lapaau workshops.
$53,812 spent11% of program spendingThe waimanalo pono research hui (wprh) is a community and academic partnership initiated in 2017 that is committed to a healthy waimanalo from keiki to kupuna and mauka to makai. We focus on collaborating and working toward a healthier waimanalo through education, aloha aina, and honoring and transferring 'ike and values of their kupuna to their keiki through pono research principles. Wprh approaches the research process with the waimanalo community in a pono way using community-based participatory principles as a foundation, which strives for equitable partnerships and reciprocal learning and benefits.
$76,123 spent16% of program spendingOther various community outreach efforts.
$195,691 spent41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $481,268.
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 $427k to $822k (+93%).
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 55% · 2021 35% · 2022 43% · 2023 6% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $61k → $179k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO’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
KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 KULA NUI O WAIMANALO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 25% · 2021 50% · 2022 58% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
79% of KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $151k on record — $150k federal, $1k state.
- Department of Commerce$150k
- TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$1k
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 KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO?
- KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO (Hawaii) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $633,288 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($399,201). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $633,288 in grants to KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $399,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO 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 17 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