Hawaii · Nonprofit
VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII
VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $366,751 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $367k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Variety School of Hawaii does
Mission
To educate children with learning differences through the use of an individualized multidisciplinary approach so that each child achieves his or her maximum potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Primary program - the program is a full day academic program on a traditional school year. Variety School of Hawaii offers students a small intimate setting that focuses on the individual academic and social needs of each child. Students achieve their maximum potential through a multidisciplinary approach with full complement of therapies (ot, speech, reading coach).
$1,537,490 spent$1,525,934 earned by the program100% of program spendingAfter school program - the program is specially designed to supplement the school's academic school programs. The program is licensed by the state of hawaii department of human services. The program's goal is to help stimulate and develop motor, cognitive, and social growth. It offers an opportunity for students to receive some assistance with their homework in a structured intimate setting appropriate for studying. Varioius enrichment activities such as art, cooking, dance, and team building games are planned daily.
$12,720 earned by the programSummer program - the program is an enrichment program to provide opportunities for experiential learning through participation and exploration.
$41,900 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,537,490.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $4.1M (+30%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 9%. 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
Jolene Chongchua
Exec dir & s
Board chair
Dale Zane
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $10k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 VARIETY SCHOOL 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
VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 69% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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
22% of VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% 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
80% of VARIETY SCHOOL 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. $134k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like VARIETY SCHOOL 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VARIETY SCHOOL OF 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 VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII?
- VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $366,751 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $366,751 in grants to VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VARIETY SCHOOL OF HAWAII?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VARIETY SCHOOL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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