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PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY

PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY (Hawaii) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,409,618 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($750,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.1M
Revenue FY2024
24
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$10.0M
Net assets
12/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

Against its field

PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY is better cushioned than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 45 ($1.4M) Expenses 116 ($1.8M) Net assets 97 ($11M)2019 Revenue 55 ($1.7M) Expenses 140 ($2.2M) Net assets 94 ($11M)2020 Revenue 61 ($2.0M) Expenses 147 ($2.3M) Net assets 91 ($10M)2021 Revenue 69 ($2.2M) Expenses 139 ($2.1M) Net assets 91 ($10M)2022 Revenue 67 ($2.1M) Expenses 147 ($2.3M) Net assets 89 ($10M)2023 Revenue 68 ($2.2M) Expenses 148 ($2.3M) Net assets 89 ($10M)2024 Revenue 65 ($2.1M) Expenses 159 ($2.5M) Net assets 88 ($10.0M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (65)Expenses (159)Net assets (88)Peer revenue range

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 11% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.6M
’17
−$341k
’18
−$417k
’19
−$320k
’20
$43k
’21
−$154k
’22
−$113k
’23
−$398k
’24
4.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $831k → $67k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
4
3
6
10
8
6
6
8
2

4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 BUDDHIST ACADEMY’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 BUDDHIST ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

53%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 64% · 2019 55% · 2020 40% · 2021 44% · 2022 69% · 2023 75% — 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

33% of PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 BUDDHIST ACADEMY draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states in all.

CA
MD
HI

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 24 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY

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

Hawaii Preparatory Academy79%Punahou School78%Mid-Pacific Institute76%Pacific Resources for Education and Learning76%The Hawaii Japanese School76%Haleakala Waldorf School76%Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School76%Island Pacific Academy Inc76%

Nationally

Pacific Heritage Schools81%Pia Schools Association80%Pacific Collegiate School80%Hawaii Preparatory Academy79%Pacific Christian Academy78%Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School Foundation Inc78%Punahou School78%Hmong American Peace Academy Ltd78%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 22%Fundraising 8%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY: 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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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 BUDDHIST ACADEMY?
PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY (Hawaii) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,409,618 to it, the largest being THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC ($750,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,409,618 in grants to PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY?
THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY 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 24funders 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