Hawaii · Nonprofit
WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE
WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,513 to it, the largest being RO FOUNDATION ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John R Halligan Charitable Fundshared funders
- The People's Fundportfolio match
- The Hawaii Pacific Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE’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
WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE'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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- John R Halligan Charitable Fundshared fundersIL · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- The People's Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hawaii Pacific Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawaii Investment Readyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ama Olukai Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohuokalani Charitable Foundationshared fundersHI · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hmsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maui Pono Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council for Native Hawaiian Advancementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE?
- WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,513 to it, the largest being RO FOUNDATION ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $32,513 in grants to WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE?
- RO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAHEA FOUNDATION BARON LEE 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing