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PUNAHOU SCHOOL

PUNAHOU SCHOOL (Hawaii) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,280,440 to it, the largest being CN WODEHOUSE FACULTY BENEFIT TRUST AT PUNAHOU SCHOOL ($6,347,181). 113 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$171M
Revenue FY2025
161
Funders on record
$43M
Grants received
$670M
Net assets
113/161 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Against its field

PUNAHOU SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 671 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($128M) Expenses 100 ($111M) Net assets 100 ($414M)2018 Revenue 95 ($122M) Expenses 105 ($117M) Net assets 103 ($427M)2019 Revenue 100 ($129M) Expenses 110 ($122M) Net assets 106 ($440M)2020 Revenue 96 ($123M) Expenses 114 ($127M) Net assets 117 ($485M)2021 Revenue 95 ($122M) Expenses 150 ($167M) Net assets 135 ($560M)2022 Revenue 112 ($143M) Expenses 113 ($126M) Net assets 130 ($538M)2023 Revenue 114 ($146M) Expenses 125 ($139M) Net assets 138 ($570M)2024 Revenue 123 ($157M) Expenses 131 ($146M) Net assets 151 ($625M)2025 Revenue 134 ($171M) Expenses 138 ($154M) Net assets 162 ($670M)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (138)Net assets (162)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

10% of PUNAHOU SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$17M
17
$4.4M
18
$6.7M
19
$4.5M
20
$45M
21
$17M
22
$7.0M
23
$11M
24
$17M
25
4.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 77 funders, grant income rose $4.4M → $5.7M.

17 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $141k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Aloha United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PUNAHOU SCHOOL raised.

From the IRS filings of PUNAHOU SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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

PUNAHOU SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

53% 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 PUNAHOU SCHOOL.

15%
largest funder
32%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 24% · 2019 21% · 2020 17% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 17%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

49% of PUNAHOU SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of PUNAHOU SCHOOL's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
HI
TX
FL

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

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18
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20
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23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 161 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PUNAHOU SCHOOL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Hawaii

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 13%Fundraising 3%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 4 states

NY
MA
SC
HI

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Cnw Faculty Benefit Trust at Punahou · exempt
  • Jtw Te Cotr Punahou · exempt
  • The Waterhouse Charitable Trust · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Trust (8) · corp_trust
  • Cf Charitable Trust · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUNAHOU SCHOOL: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL?
PUNAHOU SCHOOL (Hawaii) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,280,440 to it, the largest being CN WODEHOUSE FACULTY BENEFIT TRUST AT PUNAHOU SCHOOL ($6,347,181). 113 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PUNAHOU SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $43,280,440 in grants to PUNAHOU SCHOOL, 113 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PUNAHOU SCHOOL?
CN WODEHOUSE FACULTY BENEFIT TRUST AT PUNAHOU SCHOOL is the largest funder on record, with $6,347,181 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PUNAHOU SCHOOL 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 161funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing