Hawaii · Nonprofit
POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION
POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,000 to it, the largest being DIRECT RELIEF ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $203k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $340k
- Net assets
- $242k
What Positively Kai Foundation does
Mission
To inspire, encourage, and support the next generations pursuit of their passions and ambitions in life, through positive experiences and lessons in and on the ocean.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Positively Kai Foundation is focused on youth-driven initiatives, geared towards ocean safety and environmental education. Activities include training clinics to introduce kids to various water sports, such as stand- up paddling and surfing.
$53,281 spentof which $47,000 as grants100% of program spendingFollowing the devastating wildfires that struck lahaina in 2023, Positively Kai Foundation provided disaster relief to members of the lahaina community.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,281.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $93k to $242k (+162%).
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.
100% of POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION’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
POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION.
“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.
Where its funders are
POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states in all.
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
POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION: 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 POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION?
- POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $340,000 to it, the largest being DIRECT RELIEF ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $340,000 in grants to POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION?
- DIRECT RELIEF is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POSITIVELY KAI FOUNDATION 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 6 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