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PAWS OF HAWAII

PAWS OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,714 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($84,277). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$111k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$179k
Net assets
$0
5/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Paws of Hawaii does

Mission

Preventing cruelty to animals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Animal rescue: 217 animals were rescued, received medical care, food, supplies, and were placed in foster care.

    $42,565 spent
    35% of program spending
  2. Community outreach: worked with homeless encampments in honolulu, north shore and waianae.

    $2,762 spent
    2% of program spending
  3. Adoption: 205 adoptions were finalized after did meet and greets with adopters. Prior to adoption they must complete medical care. Also to include costs administrative costs incurred in promoting adoption.

    $75,045 spent
    62% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,372.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($172k) Expenses 100 ($167k)2024 Revenue 65 ($111k) Expenses 67 ($111k)
20232024
Revenue (65)Expenses (67)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars.

$0
$0
20232024
Total assets

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PAWS OF HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’23
$0
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $69k → $23k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 PAWS OF HAWAII’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

PAWS OF HAWAII leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 PAWS OF HAWAII.

47%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 40% · 2020 76% · 2021 41% · 2022 69% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.

“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

60% of PAWS OF HAWAII's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

61% of PAWS OF HAWAII's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $70k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Hawaii funders.

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CA
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HI

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

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’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PAWS OF HAWAII's revenue fell 35% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−35% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PAWS OF HAWAII?
PAWS OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,714 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($84,277). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PAWS OF HAWAII have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $178,714 in grants to PAWS OF HAWAII, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PAWS OF HAWAII?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $84,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAWS OF HAWAII 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 15 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