Hawaii · Nonprofit
KIMOKEO FOUNDATION
KIMOKEO FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $498,661 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($104,020). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $448k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $499k
- Net assets
- $187k
What Kimokeo Foundation does
Mission
To preserve and perpetuate the native hawaiian culture, its traditions, practices and language, mauis environment and communitys health through educational programs which benefit the people of hawaii.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
As a result of the devastating wildfires that affected lahaina, the organization introduced a disaster relief program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Kimokeo Foundation continued to host its na liko I ka la'I program, which included four hawaiian cultural workshops for hawaiian immersion students and their families. Participants learned about hawaiian cultural practices and made hawaiian crafts while being instructed by hawaiian cultural practitioners in our native indigenous language. The foundation also created its online hanai I ka 'ao audiobook series which includes 22 original hawaiian audiobooks which capture the knowledge gained by na liko I ka la'I youth and the hawaiian cultural practices that they learned during the program. We continued to partner with hanona and holani hana to provide lodging for off-island hawaiian cultural practitioners who visit maui to conduct traditional hawaiian hale (house) building practices and training in waihe'e and wailuku. We also supported members of hui malama loko I'a to train maui residents about hawaiian fishpond restoration masonry skills. We have education partners on maui and throughout the state. For a second year, we partnered with pacific american foundation's nalu (nature activities for learning and understanding) studies program by providing educational and logistical…
$187,807 spentof which $130,000 as grants$45,710 earned by the program35% of program spendingIn 2023, Kimokeo Foundation, with the generosity of its donors, helped in the response and recovery of maui wildfires victims from the tragic event that occurred in august 2023. Keeping in line with its mission for education, Kimokeo Foundation provided hawaiian immersion schools and public schools on the west side of maui with backpacks, school supplies, uniforms and financial assistance including a large donation to support lahaina's hawaiian immersion school to create a safe space for learning and to assist with their education needs. The foundation also partnered with a local builder to provide 7 survivors with temporary residences by providing 4 tiny homes for them. The foundation worked with many local restaurants and chefs to provide over 1,200 meals to residents and volunteers at community hubs throughout west maui. Kimokeo Foundation provided west maui residents with new forms of ground transportation, purchased supplies for teams who were helping in recovery efforts and distributed thousands of boxes of donations to community hubs in partnership with mainland supporters.
$94,722 spent17% of program spendingIn 2023, Kimokeo Foundation partnered with water tectonics to support their kula ag park produce washing center project which converts reservoir water into clean water. This water is then used to wash agricultural produce being grown at kula ag park. This was supported by a grant from the county of maui's dept. Of agriculture. Kimokeo Foundation also partnered with hui hui wa'a o lana'I and their makai watch program with the nature conservancy. This environmental program studied interactions between marine life and human use at hulopo'e bay and manele harbor on lana'I. The data collected helped determine how to protect natural marine resources within maui nui.
$260,305 spent48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $542,834.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $130k to $1.3M (+938%).
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: 2023 38% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of KIMOKEO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $2k → $185k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 KIMOKEO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
KIMOKEO FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% 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 KIMOKEO FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 80% · 2020 47% · 2021 19% · 2022 28% · 2023 48% — 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
29% of KIMOKEO FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
KIMOKEO FOUNDATION draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
KIMOKEO FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KIMOKEO 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 KIMOKEO 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 KIMOKEO FOUNDATION?
- KIMOKEO FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $498,661 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($104,020). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIMOKEO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $498,661 in grants to KIMOKEO FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIMOKEO FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $104,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIMOKEO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 26 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