Hawaii · Nonprofit
Pacific & Asian Affairs Council
Pacific & Asian Affairs Council (Hawaii) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,083 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($408,200). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $591k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $819k
What Pacific & Asian Affairs Council does
Mission
To promote a greater awareness and understanding of foreign affairs issues with special attention to Hawaiis role in the Asia-Pacific region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Freeman travel and after-school programs: (1) Freeman Foundation travel program provides funds for Hawaii high school students to travel to Asia to promote international education in Hawaii and (2) after-school class and club initiative. 16 students traveled on the Freeman Summer Study Tour to Vietnam in June 2025. In the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters, 51 students participated in the after-school global studies classes at 2 public high schools in Hawaii. The grants club strengthening initiatives impacted 1,175 students and 111 teachers (includes duplicates).
$204,295 spent$200,202 earned by the program35% of program spendingOther high school programs: PAAC coordinated and implemented after-school global studies classes, LEAD Summit and Workshop for PAAC Club Officer development, an interschool conference, mini conferences, Club Visits, and an academic competition. All activities provided students with a safe environment to learn about critical global issues and prepare them for an increasingly interconnected world. For the current fiscal year, 74 students participated in after-school global studies classes at 4 schools, 81 participated in the LEAD Summit and Workshop, 124 participated in the interschool conference, 200 participated in mini conference, 211 participated in Club Visits, and 138 participated in WorldQuest.
$339,476 spent$260,252 earned by the program58% of program spendingAnnual Meeting - annual global affairs dinner for furtherance of PAACs mission and funds for operations
$43,153 spent$92,382 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $586,924.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $768k to $960k (+25%).
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 18% · 2018 13% · 2019 25% · 2020 24% · 2021 47% · 2022 55% · 2023 34% · 2024 32% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Niki Shishido
Executive Director
Board chair
Warren KK Luke
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $69k → $291k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $117k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Aloha United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Pacific & Asian Affairs Council raised.
From the IRS filings of Pacific & Asian Affairs Council’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 & Asian Affairs Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 & Asian Affairs Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 58% · 2019 55% · 2020 50% · 2021 68% · 2022 32% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of Pacific & Asian Affairs Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
Pacific & Asian Affairs Council draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.
Government funding Pacific & Asian Affairs Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- Department of State$33k
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 & Asian Affairs Council
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Pacific & Asian Affairs Council: 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 & Asian Affairs Council?
- Pacific & Asian Affairs Council (Hawaii) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,206,083 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($408,200). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pacific & Asian Affairs Council have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,206,083 in grants to Pacific & Asian Affairs Council, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pacific & Asian Affairs Council?
- GLOBAL TIES US is the largest funder on record, with $408,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pacific & Asian Affairs Council 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 16 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