Hawaii · Nonprofit
VIBRANT HAWAII
VIBRANT HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,965,425 to it, the largest being Hawaii Rise Foundation ($452,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Vibrant Hawaii does
Mission
Vibrant hawai'I is a growing community that commits to individual and collective 'auamo kuleana to increase equitable opportunities to build wealth: a reservoir of human, social, cultural, and financial capital that we contribute to and draw upon. An affinity collective formed around a common vision of a thriving hawaii island where all people have choice, voice, and connection.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The resilience network which includes hubs, alliance partners, community points of distribution, and the resilience training center empowers residents to implement hyper-local solutions for community resilience. Hubs are powered by trusted community leaders who provide access to services, programs, resources, and opportunities for community members to implement place based, culturally informed strategies that increase individual and islandwide resilience.
$2,518,352 spent85% of program spendingOaka aims to address the opportunity gap that exists for many hawaii island youth that hinder employment mobility, reduce civic engagement, and deepen inequity. Oaka offers experiences that empower hawaii island youth to embrace their kuleana, and lead with aloha, turning today's pio into tomorrow's alakai.
$180,792 spent6% of program spendingThe economy stream advances economic diversity through community engagement and workforce development. In 2023, Vibrant Hawaii launched a 12-month art fellowship which focuses on increasing business acumen and supports mental health and wellbeing for artist entrepreneurs.
$84,912 spent3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$178,955 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,963,011.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $931k to $2.2M (+141%).
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 67% · 2022 5% · 2023 49% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of VIBRANT HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Janice Ikeda
Executive director
Board chair
Jennifer Zelko-Schlueter
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $737k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 VIBRANT 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
VIBRANT HAWAII has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
81% 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 VIBRANT HAWAII.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 43% · 2023 34% — 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
33% of VIBRANT HAWAII's funders are still giving 2 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
65% of VIBRANT 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. $937k 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.
Against its field
VIBRANT HAWAII has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding VIBRANT HAWAII receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 VIBRANT 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIBRANT 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 VIBRANT HAWAII?
- VIBRANT HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,965,425 to it, the largest being Hawaii Rise Foundation ($452,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIBRANT HAWAII have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,965,425 in grants to VIBRANT HAWAII, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIBRANT HAWAII?
- Hawaii Rise Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $452,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIBRANT 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 16 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