Hawaii · Nonprofit
Lydia8
Lydia8 (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,599 to it, the largest being THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC ($40,576). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Lydia8 does
Mission
Lydia8 aims to cultivate transformative artistic and cultural opportunities for whine of Hawaii to mobilize their communities and create real change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Program: EPIC Whine Empowering Pacific Indigenous Creatives x KTNMServices Provided: This integrated initiative combined the Kona Town Night Market KTNM infrastructure with the EPIC Whine cultural platform. It delivered a large-scale community hoolaulea featuring indigenous artisan marketplaces live traditional music and curated "Inspiration Stations" within the IRONMAN Village. The program focused on bridging kamaina residents and malihini visitors through vocational mentorship for local youth and visibility for native Hawaiian entrepreneurs.Number of Persons Benefited: Approximately 5,000+ individuals including participating local vendors student volunteers from career academies international athletes and the West Hawaii community.Relevant Information: This collaboration utilized the ACE Model ina-based Arts Culture and Education to provide a centralized hub for cultural exchange and community mobilization during a high-traffic international sporting event.
$49,000 spentof which $49,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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 Lydia8’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mahealani MC Akau
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 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 Lydia8’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
Lydia8 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Lydia8.
“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
Lydia8 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23 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
Lydia8 runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Lydia8
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 Lydia8: 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 Lydia8?
- Lydia8 (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,599 to it, the largest being THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC ($40,576). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lydia8 have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,599 in grants to Lydia8, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lydia8?
- THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lydia8 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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