Hawaii · Nonprofit
WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION
WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being KOSASA FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Waikiki Business Improvement District Association does
Mission
The Waikiki Business Improvement District Association (wbida) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation formed pursuant to honolulu city ordinance number 00-40 for the purpose of implementing and managing the service programs designed to improve security, sanitation, and combat community deterioration in the waikiki area of honolulu. The wbida activities supplement the level of services provided to the area by the city and county of honolulu.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The streetscape maintenance program, launched in march 2001, provides daily custodial and landscape maintenance services to keep the public areas of waikiki clean and attractive.
$2,521,874 spent53% of program spendingThe hospitality program, started in july 2007, is staffed by aloha ambassadors who serve as hosts of waikiki and provide information, assistance and aloha to everyone they encounter. The ambassadors are also alert to safety and security issues and work closely with the honolulu police department.
$1,438,714 spentof which $115,000 as grants$175,258 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe security program supports enhanced police patrols of the district's public sidewalks and beaches.
$645,850 spentof which $85,000 as grants13% of program spendingThe research and planning program conducts studies of public sidewalks, street usage and the homeless population in waikiki, as well as general research on waikiki indicators, and best practices utulizing data from other business improvement districts. The public improvements program which develops guidelines and action programs for systematic, integrated and ongoing district-wide improvements.
$196,305 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,802,743.
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.
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 $2.6M to $3.5M (+36%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 13% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 12% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION’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. 3 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.
Board chair
Paul Kosasa
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
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.
Against its field
WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: 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 WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION?
- WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being KOSASA FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION?
- KOSASA FOUNDATION 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 WAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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