Hawaii · Nonprofit
KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA)
KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA) (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,307 to it, the largest being KANAKA AUPUNI A NIIHAU ALOHA ($841,001). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $970k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $453k
What Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka) does
Mission
Preserve niihau cultural values and language.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Kula aupuni niihau a kahelelani aloha public charter school (kanaka pcs) has existed in its current form since may 1999. The school originated in 1993 with parents from the niihau community residing on kauai. The school began as a home school program for students whose primary language was the niihau dialect of olelo kanaka. These parents thought it to be very important for their children to become highly skilled bilingual speakers. Kanaka pcs implements a bilingual education to improve the performance of our students by instructing them in the english language to raise their functional skills in the western dominated world. Niihau cultural values and language are preserved using the language they live, called olelo kanaka. Kanaka pcs uses placebased and projectbased learning to reinforce hawaiian cultural values. Technology is blended with traditional learning techniques to increase english/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies skills. Kanaka pcs provides focus on learning through multidisciplinary communitybased education with an emphasis on the acquisition of english (reading & writing skills) while sustaining the olelo kanaka and the niihau culture.
$844,775 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $844,775.
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 2022 to 2023, from $536k to $1.2M (+125%).
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 97% · 2021 63% · 2022 70% · 2023 87% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Kristy Kanahele
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $184k → $144k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA)’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
KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
94% 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 KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 92% · 2019 96% · 2020 94% · 2021 89% · 2022 68% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
94% of KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA)'s grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA) has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA)
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In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kanaka Aupuni a Niihau Aloha · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA): 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 KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA)?
- KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA) (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,360,307 to it, the largest being KANAKA AUPUNI A NIIHAU ALOHA ($841,001). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA) have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,360,307 in grants to KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA), 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA)?
- KANAKA AUPUNI A NIIHAU ALOHA is the largest funder on record, with $841,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KULA AUPUNI NIIHAU A KAHELELANI ALOHA (KANAKA) 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 2020–2024), 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