Hawaii · Nonprofit
'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION
'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION (Hawaii) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,681 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($81,192). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $10M
What 'Olelo Community Television does
Mission
To strengthen our island voices and advance community engagement through innovative media by providing convenient access to training programs, equipment and production facilities managed by 'olelo, enabling the public, educational and governmental communities the ability to cablecast programming on the 'olelo channels.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To provide members of the public, educational, and governmental communities, access to video production training, services and resources.
$6,115,556 spent$70,043 earned by the program100% of program spendingContracts awarded to the university of hawaii for the provision of educational and informational video production work.
Contracts awarded to the state department of education for the provision of educational and informational video production work.
Contracts awarded to the hawaii association of independent schools for the provision of educational and informational video production work.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,115,556.
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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $28M (+86%).
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 87% · 2018 85% · 2019 84% · 2020 82% · 2021 83% · 2022 84% · 2023 83% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Alexandra Harjo-Livingston
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $51k → $18k.
1 of 9 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 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION’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
'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 96% · 2022 80% · 2023 55% — 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
50% of 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
100% of 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239 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
'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $145k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.
- National Archives and Records Administration$600k
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 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION: 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 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION?
- 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION (Hawaii) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,681 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($81,192). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $144,681 in grants to 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION?
- ALOHA UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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