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UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION

UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,882 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($127,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2020
$2k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$333k
Net assets
$0
3/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What University of the Nations Kona Foundation does

Mission

To strengthen and expand the capabilities of the university of the nations, kona, inc. To equip, mobilize, and send servant leaders.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

To serve as an innovative, flexible, and efficient vehicle to facilitate the solicitation and management of gifts and grants for the benefit of the university of the nations, kona, inc. To equip, mobilize, and send servant leaders.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($713k) Expenses 100 ($3) Net assets 100 ($713k)2018 Revenue 10 ($74k) Expenses 26219433 ($787k) Net assets 0 ($60)2020 Revenue 0 ($2k) Expenses 61600 ($2k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201720182020
Revenue (0)Expenses (61600)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $713k to $6k (−99%).

$713k
$6k
$0
201720182020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$712k
’17
−$712k
’18
−$60
’20
2850236
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $8k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION’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

UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION.

38%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

14% of UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

70% of UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $100k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 6 states.

CA
UT
DE
HI
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $233k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION?
UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,882 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($127,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $332,882 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $127,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 13 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