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KUALI'I FOUNDATION

KUALI'I FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,457,770 to it, the largest being MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND ($1,457,770). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$41M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%

Against its field

KUALI'I FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve103.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($458k) Expenses 100 ($175k) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 132 ($606k) Expenses 144 ($252k) Net assets 97 ($13M)2019 Revenue 515 ($2.4M) Expenses 97 ($169k) Net assets 131 ($18M)2020 Revenue 419 ($1.9M) Expenses 99 ($172k) Net assets 156 ($22M)2021 Revenue 395 ($1.8M) Expenses 113 ($197k) Net assets 193 ($27M)2022 Revenue 210 ($962k) Expenses 146 ($255k) Net assets 167 ($23M)2023 Revenue 2906 ($13M) Expenses 368 ($642k) Net assets 268 ($37M)2024 Revenue 280 ($1.3M) Expenses 612 ($1.1M) Net assets 293 ($41M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (280)Expenses (612)Net assets (293)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of KUALI'I FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$284k
17
$354k
18
$2.2M
19
$1.7M
20
$1.6M
21
$707k
22
$13M
23
$216k
24
103
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $148k → $155k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of KUALI'I FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of KUALI'I FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

HI

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

17
18
19
21
22
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like KUALI'I FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Hawaii

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 31%Fundraising 2%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Manoa Heritage Center · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KUALI'I 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds KUALI'I FOUNDATION?
KUALI'I FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,457,770 to it, the largest being MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND ($1,457,770). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KUALI'I FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,457,770 in grants to KUALI'I FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KUALI'I FOUNDATION?
MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,457,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KUALI'I 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing