Hawaii · Nonprofit
NAKOA FOUNDATION
NAKOA FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,000 to it, the largest being VADON FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Nakoa Foundation does
Mission
Child mentoring
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Nakoa Foundation examines the hawaiian sailing canoe from forest to the ocean to inspire a thirst for knowledge, promoting good decision making, self-reliance, sustainability and competent hawaiian leaders. Our focus is to create a sense of place and develop the intellectual skills and cultural values needed to navigate life's challenges.
$35,145 spent87% of program spendingThe Nakoa Foundation examines the hawaiian sailing canoe from forest to the ocean to inspire a thirst for knowledge, promoting good decision making, self-reliance, sustainability and competent hawaiian leaders. Our focus is to create a sense of place and develop the intellectual skills and cultural values needed to navigate life's challenges.
$5,125 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,270.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $61k to $103k (+68%).
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 NAKOA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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 rose $10k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of NAKOA FOUNDATION’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
NAKOA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 NAKOA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 47% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
NAKOA FOUNDATION draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NAKOA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding NAKOA FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36k on record.
- Department of the Interior$36k
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 NAKOA FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAKOA FOUNDATION: 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 NAKOA FOUNDATION?
- NAKOA FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,000 to it, the largest being VADON FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAKOA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $94,000 in grants to NAKOA FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAKOA FOUNDATION?
- VADON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAKOA FOUNDATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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