Hawaii · Nonprofit
PALAMA SETTLEMENT
PALAMA SETTLEMENT (Hawaii) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,617,752 to it, the largest being The Waterhouse Charitable Trust ($7,144,839). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Palama Settlement does
Mission
Established in 1896, Palama Settlement is a non profit, community-based social service agency serving the kalihi and palama neighborhoods by offering a wide range of educational, recreational, athletic, cultural, social, health, and community building programs. Our mission is to partner with those who have the greatest needs in our community, empowering them to enhance their well-being through education, health and recreation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Recreation - see schedule o
$1,148,880 spent$312,838 earned by the program51% of program spendingCommunity service center - see schedule o
$261,364 spent$327,137 earned by the program12% of program spendingEducational service - see schedule o
$559,286 spentof which $101,299 as grants$476,824 earned by the program25% of program spendingIn continuation of the above services, we also provide a pakolea youth sports program, kitchen services, and our scholarship program under our education department. Palama Settlement also offers a complete aquatic program to the community. Besides adult lap swims and recreational swimming, we offer a variety of programs, like senior aquarobic classes, swim lessons for ages 6 months to adult, a master swim team and scuba lessons activities are available. Palama pakolea youth sports were only able to provide flag football, basketball, and volleyball to the youth of the kalihi-palama area. During the summer, Palama Settlement provided daily hot lunches to its summer enrichment program and to other youth program participants.in 2023 Palama Settlement together with hilopaa family to family, inc. Launched "career camp". The primary goal of this project was to assist in implementing priorities such as employment and career readiness, college preparation for youth and youth adults. This six-week program hosted 18 participants.Palama Settlement was able to provide lunches and snacks at no cost to its participants due to its location in an area with significant concentrations of low-income…
$266,284 spent$182,825 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,235,814.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.3M to $5.6M (+7%).
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 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of PALAMA SETTLEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Sam Aiona
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Glenn Medeiros
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $700k → $1.4M.
5 of 59 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.
From the IRS filings of PALAMA SETTLEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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
PALAMA SETTLEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 74% · 2019 81% · 2020 68% · 2021 63% · 2022 76% · 2023 66% — 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
50% of PALAMA SETTLEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
92% of PALAMA SETTLEMENT's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PALAMA SETTLEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PALAMA SETTLEMENT
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 PALAMA SETTLEMENT: 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 PALAMA SETTLEMENT?
- PALAMA SETTLEMENT (Hawaii) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,617,752 to it, the largest being The Waterhouse Charitable Trust ($7,144,839). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALAMA SETTLEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $9,617,752 in grants to PALAMA SETTLEMENT, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALAMA SETTLEMENT?
- The Waterhouse Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $7,144,839 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALAMA SETTLEMENT 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 59 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