Hawaii · Nonprofit
THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL
THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL (Hawaii) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,145 to it, the largest being HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU ($68,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $300k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $261k
- Net assets
- $321k
What The Garden Island Arts Council does
Mission
Promote arts on Kauai
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Mosaic Program - create a mosaic wall at the Kilauea Lighthouse depicting the Hawaiian islands chain. Mosaic mural involved 50 artists and 30 volunteers
$101,486 spent$67,554 earned by the program39% of program spendingConcerts - E Kanikapila Kakau - presented eight concerts on eight Mondays with 35 artists. 2615 locals and visitors attended the concerts. The Christmas music concert involved 15 artists, 30 volunteers and approximately 225 persons attended tghe event.
$140,052 spent$140,052 earned by the program54% of program spendingEducational art visits and craft classes - including Crafts studio, Outreach projects and work sessions Presented Kauai Crafts Studio Workshops - 295 attending
$10,728 spent$30,388 earned by the program4% of program spendingAirport Project - 4 exhibits displayed at Lihue Airport utilizing 4 artists and 20 volunteers. Approximately 3,500,000 pass by the exhibits annually. Van Go - Brings arts educatin diretlyh to schools, libraries and communityh centers offering visual arts, storytellin and crafts. 70 people attended with six volunteers
$9,070 spent$15,000 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $261,336.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $195k to $349k (+79%).
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: 2025 25% · 2026 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Carol Yotsuda
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $35k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL’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 GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
79% of THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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 GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL: 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 GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL?
- THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL (Hawaii) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,145 to it, the largest being HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU ($68,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $261,145 in grants to THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL?
- HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU is the largest funder on record, with $68,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 9 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