Hawaii · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA
NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,730,890 to it, the largest being HAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING ($6,603,977). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Neighborhood Place of Puna does
Mission
Neighborhood Place of Puna (npp) is a child abuse and neglect prevention program. Npp provides services to help families build a safe and nurturing home through outreach, home visits, informal counseling, information, referral, advocacy, and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Neighborhood Place of Puna (npp) is a child abuse and neglect prevention program serving puna and hilo. Npp provides intensive (weekly), ongoing (6 -12 months), one-on-one support to families at risk for child abuse and, neglect. Services can be delivered in the home, via-teleservice, in the community, in the office, or some combination of those. The supports are based on the six protective factors which have shown to minimize the risk for child maltreatment. Our program focuses on helping families create safe, stable, and nurturing homes through helping them access resources, stabilize their living situation, increase opportunities, strengthen support networks, and employ developmentally appropriate and positive parenting skills.
$1,820,299 spent22% of program spendingIn june of 2019 we expanded our programming to include an emergency shelter in puna for families experiencing homelessness. Shelter staff work intensively with families to help them find appropriate housing, resources, and supports to help them end their period of homelessness.
$1,502,573 spent18% of program spendingNeighborhood Place of Puna distributes emergency rental and utility assistance to households in hawaii county.
$4,790,806 spentof which $3,782,064 as grants58% of program spendingDisaster data management: since 2020, Neighborhood Place of Puna was contracted by the county to collect, manage, and report on data associated with the delivery of emergency rent and utility assistance to households impacted by covid 19. Housing navigation : in september of 2021, the family resource center was expanded to include housing stability services for both unstably/unsafely housed families and homeless families to mitigate risks, and stabilize housing to support the health, safety and wellbeing of the entire family - adults and children. Housing navigation staff assist families in accessing and navigating available housing/homeless resources/assistance, provide ongoing case management for families, providing client advocacy, benefit establishment, tenancy skills, and linkage to mental health and substance use services, networking with the community and service providers to discover available resources and utilize a strength based and family focused approach. Coordination center: in september of 2021, npp added another housing stability service, the hawaii island coordination center. The coordination center is a call center/hub which provides a single point of contact…
$128,388 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,242,066.
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 2023 to 2024, from $621k to $5.5M (+779%).
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: 2017 55% · 2018 54% · 2019 37% · 2020 91% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 53% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $166k → $510k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA’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
NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 78% · 2019 94% · 2020 79% · 2021 93% · 2022 94% · 2023 69% — 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
67% of NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
98% of NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA: 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 NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA?
- NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,730,890 to it, the largest being HAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING ($6,603,977). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $10,730,890 in grants to NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA?
- HAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING is the largest funder on record, with $6,603,977 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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