Hawaii · Nonprofit
KOKUA MAU INC
KOKUA MAU INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,141 to it, the largest being THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ($90,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $366k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $338k
- Net assets
- $359k
What Kokua Mau Inc does
Mission
Improve the quality of life for the people of Hawaii by promoting excellence in hospice, end of life care, palliative care, and early advanced care planning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Statewide Network. Since 1999, Kokua Mau has served as a statewide coalition to help those facing serious illness and their loved ones. Our actively managed website has accurate information care planning, including advanced directives and post, palliative care, Hospice care, and grief and bereavement services. This information is free of charge and is used widely across the state. Our newsletter goes out on a regular basis sharing information, resources and training for those involved with serious illness care. We also conduct regular training, meetings and palliative care clinical case discussions for the entire community. We work with providers, health plans, long term care facilities, state agencies, and other stakeholders to keep serious illness care on the agenda in various policy and program areas. We also answer questions from the public and professionals on Advance Care Planning, POLST, palliative care, hospice, bereavement, mortuaries and other related topics.
$133,894 spent$62,640 earned by the program50% of program spendingAdvanced care planning (ACP) including POLST. Kokua Mau's ACP program conducts workshops and training to make conversations about serious illness the norm in our community. Our ACP coordinator conducts community training across the state for the public and for professionals. Because of the pandemic, many sessions shifted to zoom but we have now begun in person sessions again. Kokua Mau is the coordinator for the POLST program, an out-of-hospital medical order that documents patients' medical orders. Kokua Mau's website is the official site for the program. Kokua Mau does education and outreach for professionals and public across the state, staffs the POLST leadership task force and serves on national committees. The Executive Director has been elected to serve on the National POLST Board.
$66,947 spent$31,320 earned by the program25% of program spendingBuilding palliative care. Kokua Mau continues its focus on building palliative care awareness and capacity in Hawaii and the USAPI. Kokua Mau runs a Palliative Care Awareness committee which meets monthly to increase awareness and engagement of both professionals and the public. As a part of that committee, Kokua Mau has done training for a variety of professional groups as well as for the public including cancer survivors. Kokua Mau has also done training with USAPI jurisdictions to boost their palliative care programs. Kokua Mau continues to update its web pages for families, patients, and caregivers to make sure that the most accurate information is included.
$66,947 spent$31,320 earned by the program25% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $267,788.
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 2023 to 2024, from $289k to $328k (+13%).
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 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 5% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of KOKUA MAU INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Jeannette Koijane
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $7k → $63k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 MAU INC’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
KOKUA MAU INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 MAU INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 37% · 2020 36% · 2021 54% · 2022 51% · 2023 28% — 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
71% of KOKUA MAU INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
54% of KOKUA MAU INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $157k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k 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
KOKUA MAU INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KOKUA MAU INC
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 KOKUA MAU INC: 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 MAU INC?
- KOKUA MAU INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,141 to it, the largest being THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ($90,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KOKUA MAU INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $338,141 in grants to KOKUA MAU INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KOKUA MAU INC?
- THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KOKUA MAU INC 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 2020–2025), 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