Hawaii · Nonprofit
LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE
LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $140 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($140). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $140
- Net assets
- $-1864
What Lapaau Community Acupuncture does
Mission
To improve the qualify of life in our community by providing relief from the pain, discomfort, stress, isolation, and financial burdens of acute and chronic illness through providing affordable community acupuncture services, and herbal medicine products.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2018 Lapaau Community Acupuncture provided 1,917 treatments to individuals providing relief from pain, discomfort, stress, isolation, and financial burdens of acute and chronic illnesses.
$77,709 spentof which $10,000 as grants$69,928 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn 2019, Lapa'au Community Acupuncture gave 2,527 treatments which is a greater than 32% growth over 2018. We've also entered into a partnership with another local non-profit, Malama I Ke Ola Health Center, in their efforts to improve the health and well-being of underserved low income community members who would not otherwise be able to access and afford acupuncture.
$0 spent0% of program spendingIn 2020 Lapa'au Community Acupuncture gave approximately 3,000 treatments to our community, which was an increase from 2019 in the face of a pandemic when we were closed for two months of 2020. The added expenses of setting up according to CDC guidelines took it's toll.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $77,709.
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 2020 to 2021, from $30k to $-7781 (−126%).
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: 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $38 → $24.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140 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
LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,774 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,774 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE: 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 LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE?
- LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $140 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($140). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $140 in grants to LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAPAAU COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 1 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