Hawaii · Nonprofit
The Korean American Foundation Hawaii
The Korean American Foundation Hawaii (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $236k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What The Korean American Foundation Hawaii does
Mission
The association is organized to operate exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, religious or educational purposes, within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To promote the Korean Culture and Heritage: Copperplate for Minhwan Lee ...................... $60,875 Digitizing Works - John Kim & UOHF ............... $14,937. Diaspora Project in Korea ........................ $32,893. Flowers for Celebration & Memorial Events ......... $1,304. Hanguel Day Festival .............................. $4,500. Hawaii Community Funds - Maui Fire Disaster ...... $10,000. Hawaii Korean Chamber of Commerce ................ $35,000. Hawaii Korean Cultural Center - Taste of Korea 7th $2,000. Hawaii Korean-US Citizens league ................. $520. KBFD TV - Sponsorship for Special Programs ....... $15,471. Korea Times Hawaii - Memorials for CW Kim ........ $1,000. Korean American Day 120th Celebration ............ $89,780. Korean Artists Association Hawaii ................ $2,000. Korean Naval Party - Syngman Rhee Society ........ $664. Korean Sports Association of Hawaii .............. $2,000. oahu Cemetary and Crematory ....................... $1,588. Puuiki Korean Cemetery Project - Ceremony ........ $5,794. Songs of Love - Jinyoung Won ...................... $10,000. The United Korean Association of Hawaii ........... $1,000. Tombstone Replacement…
$331,234 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $331,234.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $1.8M (+15%).
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: 2020 50% · 2022 11% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of The Korean American Foundation Hawaii’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of The Korean American Foundation 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 Korean American Foundation Hawaii leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 Korean American Foundation Hawaii.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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.
Where its funders are
77% of The Korean American Foundation 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.
Against its field
The Korean American Foundation Hawaii runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Korean American Foundation 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Korean American Foundation 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Korean American Foundation Hawaii?
- The Korean American Foundation Hawaii (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Korean American Foundation Hawaii have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,000 in grants to The Korean American Foundation Hawaii.
- Who is the largest funder of The Korean American Foundation Hawaii?
- HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Korean American Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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