Hawaii · Nonprofit
KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL
KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,500 to it, the largest being HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $183k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $229k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Kona Coffee Cultural Festival does
Mission
The Kona Coffee Cultural Festival furthers the educational purposes of the kona coffee culture and provides for a scholarship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since its inception in 1970, the grass roots Kona Coffee Cultural Festival organization has sought to preserve, perpetuate and promote kona's unique nearly 200-year coffee heritage. As hawaii's oldest food festival and its only coffee festival in the united states. The Kona Coffee Cultural Festival promotes agri-tourism annually during the november shoulder season with the intention that visitors and residents discover and experience kona coffee and the unique history, heritage and lifestyle. With over 40 events ranging from farm tours, coffee workshops, to picking contests, visitors and residents have every opportunity to participate. The Kona Coffee Cultural Festival's intent is to promote the personalized interaction between tourism and agriculture and to strengthen agriculture tourism in hawaii. The festival and the local community embrace visitors and residents by sharing rhe unique history and culture of kona coffee pioneers, farmers and artisian through its over 40 events that celebrate the kona coffee lifestyle.
$245,844 spent$65,922 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $245,844.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $97k to $145k (+50%).
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: 2024 2% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $85k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL’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
KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — 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
99% of KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL
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
100% 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 KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL: 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 KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL?
- KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,500 to it, the largest being HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $228,500 in grants to KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL?
- HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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