Hawaii · Nonprofit
WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Hawaii) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,169 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($185,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $898k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $522k
- Net assets
- $201k
What Waianae Economic Development Council does
Mission
Increase opportunities for waianae coast residents by developing the community's rich natural, cultural and human resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Waianaea econcomic development council (wedc) discontinued the pakini loan fund program, as it was transitioned to a separate 501(c)(3) organization to operate. Wedc also discontinued the made on the waianae coast program during the fiscal year ending september 30, 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Maolipreneur is a 3-month cohort aimed to assist native hawaiian business owners living on the west coast of o'ahu, build sustainable and profitable businesses. The program consists of 8 workshops, an accountability group, and 1:1 business coaching. The program is strategically structured so that the participants have time to actively implement concepts learned through the workshops and coaching sessions. Every workshop is taught with a proven business concept that is connected to a hawaiian cultural principle, through mo'olelo (hawaiian stories). With all concepts learned in the program, business owners increase their skills of operating a business that can thrive even through times of disaster. After the program, business owners will experience a higher profit margin and an increase in revenue. Accomplishments: convened 2 cohorts, 35 participants total.
$330,501 spentof which $1,544 as grants$23,577 earned by the program56% of program spendingE mau ke a'o is a hawaiian culture-based entrepreneurship workshop series for cultural practitioners. The program provides them with the technical assistance needed to create online learning content. This results in building practitioner capacity to create a self-sustaining business through their cultural practice while also increasing public access to cultural knowledge through online platforms. At the completion of the program, participants will: set up a legal entity, prepare cultural content for an in-person and online audience, build content for online modules, perpetuate their knowledge for future generations, and build new revenue streams through their practice. Accomplishments: convened 1 cohort, with 27 participants total.
$212,998 spent36% of program spendingFinancial lo'I is our financial literacy program. It contains a workshop series that was created to help native hawaiian families connect to personal finances through cultural concepts and mo'olelo, or stories. Delivering financial and business concepts through a cultural lens, improves retention and impact of difficult and often new material. Participants can connect to the content and apply the curriculum in a way that will affect behavior and perspective in a positive manner. Accomplishments: convened 6 workshop series, with 113 participants total.
$45,406 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $588,905.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2k to $204k (+8544%).
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: 2022 69% · 2023 63% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Joseph W Lapilio Iii
CEO/presiden
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $183k.
1 of 11 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 WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’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
WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% 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
89% 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 WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 44% · 2023 73% — 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
43% of WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% 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
62% of WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54 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.
Against its field
WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Department of the Interior$158k
- Department of the Treasury$150k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$99k
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 WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Made on the Waianae Coast LLC · disregarded
- Pakini Loan Fund · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: 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 WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
- WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (Hawaii) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,169 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($185,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $522,169 in grants to WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $185,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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