Hawaii · Nonprofit
THE ARC OF HILO
THE ARC OF HILO (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,481 to it, the largest being HAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION ($143,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $361k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What The Arc of Hilo does
Mission
To improve the quality of life for people with developmental and other disabilities through educational, vocational, and skill training as well as employment and residential opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 1954 The Arc of Hilo has worked to empower people with developmental, intellectual, and physical disabilities to reach their full potential through our educational, vocational, and residential opportunities. The arc's commercial services programs provide hands-on vocational training in the areas of laundry, janitorial, grounds keeping, and conference/hospitality services. As a job creator, the arc hires disabled individuals to provide these same services to the hawaii island community; we maintain 85 federal, county, state, and private business service contracts. The arc's community supports and services programs offers educational and social activities through our adult day health and personal assistance programs. We work with participants to help them meet their individual goals. We provide round-trip transportation from the participants' home to the program, snacks, and lunch free of charge. The arc's residential program provides 52 independent living units in a protected environment for disabled and elderly individuals.
$4,202,765 spent$4,597,476 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,202,765.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.0M to $5.5M (+10%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 2% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 13% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Judi Melon
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $16k → $11k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 THE ARC OF HILO’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
THE ARC OF HILO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 THE ARC OF HILO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 72% · 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 45% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of THE ARC OF HILO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of THE ARC OF HILO's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Government funding THE ARC OF HILO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $848k on record.
- Smithsonian Institution$551k
- Department of Labor$297k
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 THE ARC OF HILO
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Hilo Arc Housing Corporation No 1 · exempt
- Hale Ulu Hoi III · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ARC OF HILO: 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 THE ARC OF HILO?
- THE ARC OF HILO (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,481 to it, the largest being HAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION ($143,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARC OF HILO have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $361,481 in grants to THE ARC OF HILO, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARC OF HILO?
- HAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $143,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARC OF HILO 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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