Hawaii · Nonprofit
Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc
Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc (Hawaii) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,213 to it, the largest being HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ($82,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $159k
- Net assets
- $218k
What Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc does
Mission
The Mission Statement of the Pacific Tsunami Museum Through education and awareness, we believe that no one should die due to a tsunami.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Providing the public with educational programs regarding Tsunamis.
$355,747 spent$319,769 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $355,747.
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 $526k to $844k (+61%).
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 19% · 2018 12% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 61% · 2022 81% · 2023 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Cindi Preller
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $43k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Tsunami Museum Inc’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 Tsunami Museum Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 Tsunami Museum Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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
20% of Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
99% of Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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 Tsunami Museum Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc: 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 Tsunami Museum Inc?
- Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc (Hawaii) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,213 to it, the largest being HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ($82,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $159,213 in grants to Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc?
- HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc 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 11 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