Hawaii · Nonprofit
KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Hawaii) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,143 to it, the largest being HAWAII COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES ($60,300). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $460k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $313k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Kona Historical Society does
Mission
The Kona Historical Society preserves the history of kona to enrich, inspire, and inform our community and visitors. We do this through collecting, preserving, researching, interpreting, and disseminating the history of kona, with special emphasis on the period from 1830 to the present. The Kona Historical Society connects past, current, and future generations to kona and hawaii's history, and inspires an appreciation of its heritage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Kona coffee living history farm. Patrons and students are inspired by the lives of pioneer coffee farmers. Costumed interpreters demonstrate japanese cooking using traditional implements and a wood-burning stove, and demonstrate how coffee is picked and processed, while explaining the role of the donkey in coffee farming. Visitors leave the site with an appreciation of the critical role of children in the success of the coffee farm, and the contrast between their own modern life and the family of 1920's kona mauka. Japanese american and local immigrant culture, in particular, is emphasized in program performances and cultural craft fair activities.
$121,392 spent$48,003 earned by the program39% of program spendingH.n. Greenwell store museum. Visitors enter the stone building constructed ca. 1870, where imported and exported goods form the late 19th century are displayed and explained, with opportunities for visitors to touch and experience the objects. Trained and costumed interpreters discuss subjects including ranching, dairying, land use, ethnic groups, and trade with the outside world.
$56,026 spent$22,155 earned by the program18% of program spendingPortuguese stone oven. Participants visiting on thursdays participate in rolling and panning the dough as part of the authentic bread-baking program. An important learning outcome is a better understanding of portuguese traditions, including how sweetbread become part of hawaii's culture. About 100 loaves of bread are baked and sold each week to a steady stream of customers, furthering their appreciation of kona's culture.
$9,337 spent$3,692 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther activities and programs include exhibits, festivals celebrating local culture and holidays, award-winning publications, special events, jeep tours to remote cultural sites, archival projects and reference, films, podcasts, oral histories, and theater productions featuring characters from kona's history, lectures, and archival projects, and tours of historic cemeteries.
$124,503 spent$49,233 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $311,258.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.9M to $1.7M (−9%).
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: 2018 28% · 2019 6% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 8% · 2023 13% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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. 4 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 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $32k → $18k.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
48% 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 68% · 2019 83% · 2020 43% · 2021 44% · 2022 29% · 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.
How long its funders stay
69% of KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
83% of KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$70k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Hawaii) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,143 to it, the largest being HAWAII COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES ($60,300). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $313,143 in grants to KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- HAWAII COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES is the largest funder on record, with $60,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 22 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