Hawaii · Nonprofit
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,480,919 to it, the largest being HAU'OLI MAU LOA FOUNDATION ($452,873). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Pacific American Foundation does
Mission
The Pacific American Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of pacific americans by educating and informing decision makers and leaders at all levels on the vital policy areas for americans who trace their ancestry to the indigenous peoples of the pacific islands. The foundation partners with local communities, support agencies and funding organizations to collaboratively develop and conduct programs that make a difference in the quality of life of these americans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
21st century community learning centers program is a five-year after-school program connecting students with "community classroom" partners to augment learning experience for public and charter school students on the kailua - kalaheo complex area of oahu.
$679,710 spent$268,571 earned by the program19% of program spending21st century community learning centers program is a three-year after- school program connecting students with "community classroom" partners to augment the learning experience for public and charter school students on the windward side of oahu.
$563,798 spent$563,798 earned by the program16% of program spendingThe nalu studies maui nui program consists of educational partnerships on three islands of hawai'I - maui, moloka'I, and lana'I, known as maui nui. The project is a collaboration between those islands' middle and high schools, the university of hawaii, maui college, and the maui family court, working together to provide training and applicable, real world, hands-on learning opportunities for high-risk native hawaiian youth to value education, hawaiian cultureand protocols, stewardship, and science. Nalu is an acronym for "nature activities for learning and understanding." students will learn to identify real world environmental issues, collect and analyze data to share with science agency partners, and present solutions to the public. They will learn cultural protocols and connect to the environment through meaningful, engaging approaches with caring adult mentors helping them become environmentally responsible leaders who peer mentor their younger at-risk middle school students.
$421,677 spent12% of program spendingOther miscellaneous programs and projects.
$1,923,361 spent$1,157,937 earned by the program54% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,588,546.
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 2019 to 2020, from $481k to $2.0M (+320%).
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 54% · 2018 20% · 2019 66% · 2020 46% · 2021 79% · 2022 36% · 2023 25% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Michael Beasley Esq
Bod chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $24k → $104k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 PACIFIC AMERICAN 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
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 55% · 2020 51% · 2021 44% · 2022 51% · 2023 29% — 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
38% of PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
58% of PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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.
Against its field
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Department of Education$1.5M
- Department of Commerce$1.3M
- Department of the Interior$500k
- National Science Foundation$245k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$150k
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 PACIFIC AMERICAN 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.
Where the money goes
96% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pacific American Foundation Hawaii · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACIFIC AMERICAN 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 PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION?
- PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,480,919 to it, the largest being HAU'OLI MAU LOA FOUNDATION ($452,873). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,480,919 in grants to PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION?
- HAU'OLI MAU LOA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $452,873 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC AMERICAN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing