Hawaii · Nonprofit
THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE
THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE (Hawaii) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,128,941 to it, the largest being JAMES & ABIGAIL CAMPBELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Friends of Iolani Palace does
Mission
To preserve, restore, interpret, share, and celebrate the unique cultural, historical, and spiritual qualities of `iolani palace and its grounds for the benefit of native hawaiians, the people of hawai`I, and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum operations - visitors from around the world visit the palace. Audio tours are available in english, french, german, japanese, korean, mandarin chinese, spanish and italian. We also offer a hawaiian-language audio tour, primarily for students in hawaiian language immersion schools. Our visitor count total was 103,815 for the reporting year.we designate the second sunday of every month as "kama'aina sunday," where up to 500 residents receive a self-guided audio tour of the palace without having to pay an admission fee. The museum serves a considerable number of foreign dignitaries whose complimentary visits to the palace are arranged by their respective consuls general in honolulu. The palace has also welcomed in the past the head of state for the independent nation of samoa, the king of aotearoa (new zealand), the king of tonga, the vice premier of the state council for the people's republic of china, governors of various prefectures in japan, and his holiness the dalai lama.the palace offers an educational program that focuses on hawaiian history and the last monarch of the kingdom of hawai'I. We are committed to providing students with a well-rounded educational experience…
$2,851,661 spentof which $192,735 as grants$2,342,763 earned by the program100% of program spendingPalace shops - primarily selling products derived from or related to iolani palace history, along with items for the convenience of visitors.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,851,661.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.9M to $8.4M (+116%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 8% · 2019 13% · 2020 28% · 2021 23% · 2022 32% · 2023 33% · 2024 37% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Paula Guanzon
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $26k → $33k.
7 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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 FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
48% 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 FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 84% · 2019 77% · 2020 35% · 2021 28% · 2022 36% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
18% of THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
94% of THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $784k on record.
- Department of the Interior$500k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$200k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$85k
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 FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE: 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 FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE?
- THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE (Hawaii) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,128,941 to it, the largest being JAMES & ABIGAIL CAMPBELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $1,128,941 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE?
- JAMES & ABIGAIL CAMPBELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE 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 47 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