Hawaii · Nonprofit
SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII
SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,090 to it, the largest being THE CLARENCE TC CHING FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- McInerny Foundation--shared funderslocalportfolio match
- Aloha United Way Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Queen's Medical Centershared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 9% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $62k.
From the IRS filings of SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER 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
SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII leans on a few funders — its largest provides 25% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 81% — 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
52% of SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- McInerny Foundation--shared funderslocalportfolio matchHI · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · funds 87 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Aloha United Way Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchHI · backs 116 organizations that share your funders · funds 252 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Queen's Medical Centershared funderslocalportfolio matchHI · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 99 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hawaii Island United Way Incshared fundersportfolio matchHI · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Public Health Fund of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaiiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J Watumull Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Macnaughton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Altres Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finance Factors Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maurice and Joanna Sullivan Family Foundationshared fundersHI · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- First Hawaiian Bank Foundationshared fundersHI · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
- The Cades Foundationshared funderslocalHI · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 55 organizations near you
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.
Government funding SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII: 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.
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 SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII?
- SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,090 to it, the largest being THE CLARENCE TC CHING FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $197,090 in grants to SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER OF HAWAII?
- THE CLARENCE TC CHING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER 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.
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 8funders 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