Hawaii · Nonprofit
WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL
WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,668 to it, the largest being MCINERNY FOUNDATION ($46,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $783k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $513k
What Waimea Country School does
Mission
Waimea Country School's mission is to educate children to become confident, responsible, and compassionate people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
A co-ed independent school serving approximately 48 students in grades k-5. It was founded in 1996 by families seeking to balance academic rigor and family-centered values in a structured, high-quality program.our mission is to educate children to become confident, responsible, and compassionate people. We offer a child-centered curriculum in three multiage classrooms (k/1, 2/3, and 4/5), where learning is a collaborative journey; students of all ages mentor each other and learn both to lead and to follow. -continued below-
$676,104 spentof which $67,060 as grants$659,088 earned by the program100% of program spending-contiued from above-this is supported by a low student-teacher ratio that prioritizes strong relationships and individual attention. The curriculum is more than a set of subjects; it is a way of learning that melds strong academics with essential values. The curriculum includes core academics as well as music, art, physical education, hawaiian studies, and gardening. Social-emotional learning is embedded alongside academic excellence and cultural competence. Wcs is fully accredited by the hawaii association of independent schools (hais) and the western association of schools and colleges (wasc).
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $676,104.
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 2023 to 2024, from $479k to $762k (+59%).
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.
11% of WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL’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
WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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: 2018 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 58% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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
17% of WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
83% of WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL
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 WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL: 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 WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL?
- WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,668 to it, the largest being MCINERNY FOUNDATION ($46,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $79,668 in grants to WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL?
- MCINERNY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAIMEA COUNTRY SCHOOL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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