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KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION

KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,343 to it, the largest being THE ANGELO FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($115,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.3M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$667k
Net assets
$22M
14/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Kokua Hawaii Foundation does

Mission

To provide students and community members with experiences that will enhance their appreciation for and understanding of their environment so they will be lifelong stewards of the earth.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Aina in schools is aimed at connecting children to their land, waters and food in order to grow a healthier future for hawaii. Our mission is to actively integrate nutrition and agriculture in schools. We do this through the promotion of healthy school lunches featuring locally grown produce, nutrition education in the classroom, garden-based learning, agricultural field trips, solid waste management, and community outreach.

    $279,858 spent$1,806 earned by the program
    15% of program spending

  2. Environmental field trips: our field trip assistance program helps bring students to outdoor sites where they can experience hands-on learning about hawaii's environment. The Kokua Hawaii Foundation offers financial assistance to hawaii public schools which otherwise could not afford to participate in environmental field trips, fundraising drives and retrieving recyclables from participating schools.

    $227,251 spent
    12% of program spending

  3. Environmental education mini grants: teachers from hawaii public schools can apply for mini-grants to help advance their environmental education goals. Previous grantees have used khf funds for garden supplies, eco-footprint workshops, vermicompost trainings, and other worthwhile endeavors.

    $187,668 spent$5,971 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

  4. 3rs school recycling: with on campus recycling and school-wide collection by student councils and service clubs, this program teaches students about the importance of the 3r's: reducing, reusing, and recycling. The kokua hawai'I foundation partners with local recycling companies to sponsor school fundraising drives and to pickup recyclables from participating schools.kokua learning farm: hands on farm learning for school children and community members. The ability to learn where our food comes from and the connection of the food to the land.kokua general store: facility that holds informational training classes on living sustainably; vintage sales of reused items, and a refill shop for soaps and shampoos to reduce plastic waste.gain on sales of investment assets.

    $1,223,510 spent$491,859 earned by the program
    64% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,918,287.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($350k) Expenses 100 ($727k) Net assets 100 ($18M)2018 Revenue 217 ($760k) Expenses 118 ($859k) Net assets 99 ($18M)2019 Revenue 282 ($987k) Expenses 137 ($994k) Net assets 99 ($18M)2020 Revenue 213 ($745k) Expenses 138 ($1.0M) Net assets 98 ($18M)2021 Revenue 361 ($1.3M) Expenses 117 ($851k) Net assets 100 ($18M)2022 Revenue 384 ($1.3M) Expenses 169 ($1.2M) Net assets 101 ($18M)2023 Revenue 402 ($1.4M) Expenses 227 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2024 Revenue 675 ($2.4M) Expenses 247 ($1.8M) Net assets 103 ($19M)2025 Revenue 1526 ($5.3M) Expenses 308 ($2.2M) Net assets 120 ($22M)
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Revenue (1526)Expenses (308)Net assets (120)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $19M to $22M (+17%).

$18M
$18M
$18M
$18M
$18M
$18M
$18M
$19M
$22M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$377k
’17
−$99k
’18
−$7k
’19
−$256k
’20
$416k
’21
$120k
’22
−$240k
’23
$571k
’24
$3.1M
’25
8.6
months of
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.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $17k → $99k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Johnson Ohana Foundationunclassified
$75k
WSL Pureunclassified
$25k
funders
3
2
2
9
10
11
12
11
5

8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

53% 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 KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION.

17%
largest funder
43%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 53% · 2019 83% · 2020 34% · 2021 25% · 2022 57% · 2023 25% — 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

38% of KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
NJ
CA
UT
DE
HI
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin58% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like KOKUA HAWAII 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 California

Johnson Ohana Foundation81%The Oneta Foundation75%Lakefarm Learning75%Hoala Foundation for Education74%Healthy Kids Happy Planet73%William Holden Wildlife Foundation73%Kohl Education Foundation73%John F Kennedy Memorial Foundation72%

Nationally

Johnson Ohana Foundation81%Kulia Education Foundation81%Papahana Kuaola79%Hoala Kealakekua Nui Inc79%Kupu78%Consortium for Hawaii Ecological Engineering Education78%Kailapa Community Association78%Kapaa High School Foundation78%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
78%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

66%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Kokua Ventures · partnership
  • Bubble Toes Productions Inc · corp_trust
  • Brushfire Records Inc · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KOKUA HAWAII 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 KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION?
KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,343 to it, the largest being THE ANGELO FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($115,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $667,343 in grants to KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION?
THE ANGELO FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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