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OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL

OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,023 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$24k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$78k
Net assets
$923
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Ocean Film Fest Inc Dba Waimea Ocean Film Festival does

Mission

Our mission is to bring a greater understanding of the ocean environment and island culture and build awareness that everything we do on land affects the sea, and the people whose livelihood and subsistence depends on the health of the ocean environment.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. The 8th annual waimea ocean film festival was held in january 2018 to promote a greater understanding of the ocean environment and island culture.

    $24,909 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,909.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($419k) Expenses 100 ($410k) Net assets 100 ($74k)2018 Revenue 78 ($325k) Expenses 92 ($379k) Net assets 27 ($20k)2019 Revenue 64 ($268k) Expenses 70 ($285k) Net assets 4 ($3k)2021 Revenue 8 ($32k) Expenses 14 ($58k) Net assets 4 ($3k)2022 Revenue 6 ($24k) Expenses 8 ($34k) Net assets 1 ($923)
20172018201920212022
Revenue (6)Expenses (8)Net assets (1)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $96k to $38k (−61%).

$96k
$38k
$3k
$3k
$3k
20172018201920212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
−$54k
’18
−$17k
’19
−$26k
’21
−$10k
’22
1.0
months of
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.

20172018201920212022
Listed44444
Joined·+0+0·+0
No longer listed·00·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $17.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL’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

OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL.

58%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

92% of OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 1 state.

OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL's revenue fell 94% between 2017 and 2022.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−43% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 22%Fundraising 4%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL?
OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,023 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $78,023 in grants to OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OCEAN FILM FEST INC DBA WAIMEA OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 5 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