Hawaii · Nonprofit
KULA NO NA POE HAWAII
KULA NO NA POE HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $578,845 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($203,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $579k
- Net assets
- $-1648513
What Kula No Na Poe Hawaii does
Mission
Kula no na po'e hawai'I's vision is to empower residents with educational opportunities supported by a prosperous and healthy community. Education is our priority, well-being our commitment. Kula no na po'e hawai'I is a native hawaiian beneficiary serving organization that exists to promote cultural, educational, environmental and health equity for all by providing education and health services instill cultural diversity and sensitivity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided residents programs focused on improving health & safety and promoting wellness through advocacy, communication, education, identification of service resources, and facilitation of service. Provided covid-19 global pandemic response activities that included wellness checks to community residents, distributed food, hot meals and produce boxes, medical supplies & equipment, and disposable supplies, assisted residents to acquire resources and services from various social service agencies, and organizations. Coordinated covid-19 testing. Take programs took on-line formats programs increasing the use of technology, modified education, and training (with a specific focus on pandemic response and dementia, and increased home and community safety. Conducted covid-19 safe community events for family strengthening, trunk a treat, christmas drive through. Online career development training for community health workers and future firefighters.
$2,162,504 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,162,504.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.4M to $834k (−42%).
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: 2017 97% · 2018 99% · 2019 81% · 2020 36% · 2021 59% · 2022 93% · 2023 90% · 2024 90% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of KULA NO NA POE HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $65k → $30k.
1 of 9 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 NO NA POE HAWAII’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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 NO NA POE HAWAII leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 NO NA POE HAWAII.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 64% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
60% of KULA NO NA POE HAWAII's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
KULA NO NA POE HAWAII draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422 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 NO NA POE HAWAII's revenue fell 45% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 390 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding KULA NO NA POE HAWAII receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.6M on record.
- Department of Education$6.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
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 KULA NO NA POE HAWAII
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 KULA NO NA POE HAWAII: 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 NO NA POE HAWAII?
- KULA NO NA POE HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $578,845 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($203,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KULA NO NA POE HAWAII have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $578,845 in grants to KULA NO NA POE HAWAII, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KULA NO NA POE HAWAII?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $203,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KULA NO NA POE HAWAII 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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