Hawaii · Nonprofit
THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII
THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,056 to it, the largest being ATHERTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($105,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $344k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $212k
- Net assets
- $201k
What The Childrens Law Project of Hawaii does
Mission
We are a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to empowering court-involved children on Hawaii island through youth focused legal advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
As Guardians ad Litem for children in foster custody and as attorneys for parents whose children have been removed into foster care, we take a broad view of our client's needs. By following best practices, engaging mental health and lived-experience professionals, and advocating for trauma-informed care, we seek to connect our clients with the services they need to heal from their experiences. We strive to give our clients a voice and empower them to participate in child protective services process. As we advocate for our clients, we investigate the circumstances of the case, report to the parties and the court, encourage settlement in children's best interest, and connect the family with community resources. As part of this program, CLPHI also provides comprehensive family-centered advocacy for parents navigating the child welfare system. Served 113 clients
$95,267 spent$214,914 earned by the program40% of program spendingThrough Project Permanence, we work to establish adoptions and legal guardianships for children whose parents are not able to safely care for them. First, we seek to prevent child welfare involvement by establishing a legal relationship between children and non-parent caregivers. Second, Project Permanence seeks to get children already involved with Child Welfare Services out of the foster care system by establishing guardianships and adoptions. Ultimately, the goal of this project is to help children live in permanent homes and forge life-long connections to stable families. Our Multidisciplinary Teams focus on providing holistic legal advocacy for our Guardian ad Litem (GAL) clients. In addition to an Attorney, our MDTs are staffed by a Children's Law Project of Hawai'i (CLPHI) Social Worker and/or a Lived-Experience Advocate. All of our GAL clients assigned to an MDT have a comprehensive legal case plan developed and implemented for them that ensures advocacy across multiple domains (i.e. education, physical/mental health, and public benefits.) We engage families, youth, and qualified professionals to develop and implement tailored plans to best serve our clients. The expertise…
$7,835 spent$7,835 earned by the program3% of program spendingCLPHIs Multidiciplinary Team (MDT) Program provides holistic advocacy services for children and parents involved with Child Welfare Services. Last year our MDT Program expanded to include youth who aged out of Foster Care. Every child in foster custody is assigned a Guardian ad Litem (GAL) to represent his or her best interests in Family Court and every parent whose child is taken away by the state is appointed an attorney. While these advocates primary focus is to litigate safety concerns in the homes, truly enabling our clients to move past the trauma that resulted in foster custody requires a comprehensive legal approach. In addition to attorneys, our MDT Teams include critical experts such as CLPHI social workers and/or lived experience advocates Our MDT Teams more closely track our clients well-being, better evaluate their needs, refer them to community resoures and servies faster, and guide the in overcoming past traumas so that they cam move forward in their lives. Served 32 clients
$136,557 spent$120,284 earned by the program57% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $239,659.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $204k to $347k (+70%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 40% · 2021 16% · 2022 0% · 2023 17% · 2024 5% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Valerie Grab
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT 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
THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 36% — 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
100% of THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT 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. $24k 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.
Against its field
THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT 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
75% 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 THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII?
- THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,056 to it, the largest being ATHERTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($105,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $212,056 in grants to THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII?
- ATHERTON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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