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VOLCANO ART CENTER

VOLCANO ART CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,995 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ($57,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$169k
Net assets
$1.5M
6/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Volcano Art Center does

Mission

The Volcano Art Center's (vac) mission is to promote, develop, and perpetuate the artistic and cultural heritage of hawaii's people and environment through activities in the visual, literal, and performance arts. The vac seeks to share the mission with a broad range of individuals, groups, and communities who share common interests and goals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Volcano art gallery provides interpretive services for the historic 1877 volcano house building for visitors to hawaii volcanoes national park as a marketplace for arts by local artists.

    $836,022 spent$780,677 earned by the program
    90% of program spending
  2. Educational and cultural programs provided in the arts for the community and visitors to hawaii volcanoes national park.

    $96,375 spent$89,995 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $932,397.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($685k) Expenses 100 ($778k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 107 ($732k) Expenses 101 ($782k) Net assets 97 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 107 ($736k) Expenses 110 ($858k) Net assets 91 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 83 ($570k) Expenses 88 ($688k) Net assets 84 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 122 ($835k) Expenses 94 ($733k) Net assets 90 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 149 ($1.0M) Expenses 125 ($971k) Net assets 93 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 167 ($1.1M) Expenses 142 ($1.1M) Net assets 95 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 160 ($1.1M) Expenses 158 ($1.2M) Net assets 88 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 151 ($1.0M) Expenses 147 ($1.1M) Net assets 82 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (147)Net assets (82)Peer revenue range

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 $1.8M to $2.3M (+26%).

$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.3M
$2.1M
$2.0M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 13% · 2021 18% · 2022 2% · 2023 4% · 2024 11% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of VOLCANO ART CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$93k
’17
−$50k
’18
−$122k
’19
−$119k
’20
$102k
’21
$52k
’22
$38k
’23
−$131k
’24
−$106k
’25
4.6
months of
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.

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Listed111110131514111211
Joined·+4+0+6+5+1+1+4+1
No longer listed·41332432
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $26k.

1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VOLCANO ART CENTER’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

VOLCANO ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

62% 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 VOLCANO ART CENTER.

34%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 70% · 2022 48% · 2023 54% — 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 VOLCANO ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of VOLCANO ART CENTER's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

MA
CA
NC
HI

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

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’22
’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Against its field

VOLCANO ART CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like VOLCANO ART CENTER

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.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 15%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members
70%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

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Questions and answers

Who funds VOLCANO ART CENTER?
VOLCANO ART CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,995 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ($57,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VOLCANO ART CENTER have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $168,995 in grants to VOLCANO ART CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VOLCANO ART CENTER?
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $57,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VOLCANO ART CENTER 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing