Hawaii · Nonprofit
LELE ALOHA
LELE ALOHA (Hawaii) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,344,284 to it, the largest being AMA OLUKAI FOUNDATION ($1,016,462). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $592k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $403k
What Lele Aloha does
Mission
To honor hawaiis rich genealogy for ohana, protecting land, ocean, water resources, and building healthy communities beginning with lahaina.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Houlu lahaina - houlu lahaina unity gathering brought together over 10,000 people to stand in collective remembrance and strength.
$513,835 spent$374,453 earned by the program46% of program spendingHauola community support awards - 18 local community organizations were benefited and received support.
$288,959 spent26% of program spendingMauka to makai education programs - lahaina christmas light parade was held, celebrated the season with over 20,000 community participants. Kahoma work days mobilizes more than 80 volunteers in direct community support and restoration efforts.
$219,429 spent$25,000 earned by the program20% of program spendingKukulu ola lahalina - sponsored participation in the festive of pacific arts & culture which welcomed over 60,000 attendees to oahu over 14 days.
$97,249 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,119,472.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $404k (−64%).
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.
100% of LELE ALOHA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 LELE ALOHA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
LELE ALOHA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 LELE ALOHA.
“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
98% of LELE ALOHA's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
LELE ALOHA's revenue fell 49% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,082 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LELE ALOHA
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 LELE ALOHA: 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 LELE ALOHA?
- LELE ALOHA (Hawaii) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,344,284 to it, the largest being AMA OLUKAI FOUNDATION ($1,016,462). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LELE ALOHA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,344,284 in grants to LELE ALOHA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LELE ALOHA?
- AMA OLUKAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,016,462 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LELE ALOHA 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 12 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