Hawaii · Nonprofit
LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND
LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND (Hawaii) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,956,850 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($310,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $549k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Lawakua Charitable Fund does
Mission
The organization uses martial arts to teach confidence, coordination, structure, and discipline to youth, with a focus on at-risk and low-income children and to guide disadvantaged youths to a more hopeful future. The organization also provides educational assistance, such as tuition payments and other school costs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Lawakua Charitable Fund recruits at-risk and low-income children to join its martial arts club. They learn discipline, hard work, self-defense, team collaboration, and respect for others. The organization also uses martial arts to instill confidence, coordination, and structure to guide youth and provide them with educational assistance, such as tuition payments, school supplies, school books, uniforms and meals. The organization also provides all of the necessary martial arts equipment and gear for the children who are participating in the program.in-person kajukenbo classes started up again in 2022 and now are held three times a week on tuesdays, fridays and saturdays. Covid vaccinations are required for all participants. Classes were held at kuhio park terrace only, and no longer offered at palama settlement and halawa housing. Mid 2022, a third class was added on tuesdays. Virtual tutoring services continued as students preferred virtual over in-person sessions.
$232,035 spentof which $128,052 as grants$639 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $232,035.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $2.3M (+20%).
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.
33% of LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Matthew Levi
President and chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $225k → $436k.
1 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND’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
LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 99% · 2019 58% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 57% — 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
42% of LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
68% of LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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 LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND: 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 LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND?
- LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND (Hawaii) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,956,850 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($310,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,956,850 in grants to LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND?
- THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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