Hawaii · Nonprofit
PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS
PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,994,170 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($16,027,319). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Pacific Islanders in Communications does
Mission
The mission of Pacific Islanders in Communications (pic) is to support, advance, and develop pacific island media content and talent that enhances public recognition of and appreciation for pacific islander history, culture and society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year, pic continued to amplify native hawaiian and pacific islander (nhpi) voices that enrich america's cultural landscape through the art of storytelling. We are the only organization in the country that does this by developing, producing, and funding films, as well as providing professional development opportunities to emerging filmmakers, and engaging audiences through public media distribution and community engagement screenings.
$1,784,493 spentof which $870,758 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,784,493.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $3.2M (+33%).
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: 2018 15% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).
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
Cheryl Hirasa
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.0M.
2 of 8 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 ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS’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 ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 87% · 2021 92% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% — 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
80% of PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS draws 100% 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. $701k 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.
Against its field
PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $173k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$173k
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 ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS
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
76% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS: 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 ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS?
- PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,994,170 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($16,027,319). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $16,994,170 in grants to PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $16,027,319 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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