Hawaii · Nonprofit
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,524 to it, the largest being HAU'OLI MAU LOA FOUNDATION ($452,873). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,604 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,604 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schoolsshared fundersportfolio match
- The Strong Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Harold Kl Castle Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $24k → $104k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 32% 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
60% 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. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schoolsshared fundersportfolio matchHI · backs 79 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Strong Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchHI · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Harold Kl Castle Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchHI · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kosasa Foundationshared fundersHI · backs 83 organizations that share your funders
- The Hawaii Pacific Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles and Mitch Ota Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard M Towill Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patrick and Kris Kobayashi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frost Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Savitt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McInerny Foundation--shared fundersHI · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- The Queen's Medical Centershared fundersHI · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION?
- PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,406,524 to it, the largest being HAU'OLI MAU LOA FOUNDATION ($452,873). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,406,524 in grants to PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION, 9 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.
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 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing