Hawaii · Nonprofit
SOTO ACADEMY
SOTO ACADEMY (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,277 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($28,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $0
What Soto Academy does
Mission
Soto Academy is dedicated to developing good citizens and academic proficiency through character and physical development. We help students develop to their full potential socially, mentally and physically.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Soto Academy is a non-denominational private school for students in kindergarten through 6th grade dedicated to developing good citizens with: a strong academic foundation. A healthy sense of self-worth and pride in accomplishment. Self-discipline, independence, creative thinking, and good work habitsneeded to become a successful student and contributing member of the community. With no more than 12 children in each classroom, students receive individualized support in their academics and in specialty programs such as technology, culture, and the arts.
$431,703 spent$335,334 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $431,703.
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.
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 $327k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $5k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 SOTO ACADEMY’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
SOTO ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 SOTO ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SOTO ACADEMY draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.
Organizations like SOTO ACADEMY
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 SOTO ACADEMY: 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 SOTO ACADEMY?
- SOTO ACADEMY (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,277 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($28,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOTO ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $55,277 in grants to SOTO ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOTO ACADEMY?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOTO ACADEMY 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing