Hawaii · Nonprofit
RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII
RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,264 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($37,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $230k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Rescue Kitties of Hawaii does
Mission
The mission and purpose of Rescue Kitties of Hawaii(rkh) is to rescue abandoned, injured, special needs, and homeless cats on the hawaiian islands, and to provide urgent medical care. Rkh volunteers fight daily to save them from euthanasia due to overpopulation and lack of resources. The goal is to advocate awareness, educate, save cats from harsh conditions in the wild, tnrm, adoption, foster care and networking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rescue Kitties of Hawaii rescues abandoned, injured, abused, homeless, and special-needs cats and kittens throughout hawaii. The organization provides emergency and routine veterinary treatment, medication, spay and neuter services, food, shelter, foster care, rehabilitation, and transportation. Once medically and behaviorally prepared for placement, cats are matched with qualified adoptive homes in hawaii and through nonprofit rescue partners on the mainland. During 2025, the organization continued coordinating veterinary care, foster support, interisland and mainland transportation, and permanent placement services for cats that otherwise faced illness, injury, abandonment, or euthanasia.
$188,422 spent92% of program spendingThe organization strengthened the operational capacity necessary to expand and sustain its animal-rescue mission. Activities included improving volunteer coordination, animal-care tracking, transportation planning, foster and adoption support, community outreach, nonprofit partnerships, and internal processes used to respond to cats and kittens in crisis. These efforts improved communication, accountability, continuity of care, and the ability to coordinate medical treatment, transportation, foster placement, and permanent adoption across hawaii and with mainland rescue partners.
$10,129 spent5% of program spendingTo support the 1st exempt purpose of saving hawaii kitties by providing critical care and services that transform these sick, injured, tortured, and abused cats/kittens into a placeable position. The success of the cat/kitten placement has been enhanced by the non-profit partnership in many different states on the mainland, who facilitate adoptions in safe quality homes.
$5,414 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $203,965.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $85k to $95k (+11%).
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: 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $167 → $23k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 RESCUE KITTIES 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
RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of RESCUE KITTIES 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 $450 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Hawaii funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII?
- RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,264 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($37,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $63,264 in grants to RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESCUE KITTIES OF HAWAII?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESCUE KITTIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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