Hawaii · Nonprofit
KELEA FOUNDATION
KELEA FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,282 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $404k
- Net assets
- $208k
What Kelea Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Kelea Foundation is to support and uplift the community of maui through inclusive and accessible support services and activities vision statement
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2025, Kelea Foundation continued its mission of supporting and uplifting the maui community through inclusive and accessible support services and activities. The organization focused on serving individuals and families across maui county, including people with disabilities, kupuna, wildfire survivors, and other underserved populations. Kelea Foundation operated programs in four primary service areas: recreation and inclusive community programming, accessible transportation support, navigation and advocacy services, and the maui medical loan closet. Program activities included inclusive recreation opportunities, adaptive sports and wellness programming, support groups, educational workshops, community events, and volunteer and accessibility trainings. Kelea Foundation also continued operation of kelea hq, a community space in kahului serving as a hub for meetings, wellness activities, community support services, and partner collaborations. The organization continued operating the maui medical loan closet, which receives, processes, inventories, and distributes donated durable medical equipment and consumable supplies to address community needs and improve access to equipment…
$288,173 spentof which $10,446 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $288,173.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $48k to $349k (+621%).
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.
96% of KELEA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $28k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 KELEA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
KELEA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 KELEA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
KELEA FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 6 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KELEA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KELEA FOUNDATION
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 KELEA 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KELEA FOUNDATION?
- KELEA FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,282 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KELEA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $404,282 in grants to KELEA FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KELEA FOUNDATION?
- CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KELEA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 11 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