Hawaii · Nonprofit
WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,516 to it, the largest being THE PEOPLE'S FUND ($68,516). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $326k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Waipahu Community Association does
Mission
Provide leadership in strengthening waipahus capacity to create and pursue, through public and private resources, community-based development opportunities; to support activities that enhance and support the economic, social, and cultural vitality and image of waipahu, and to ensure that waipahu will be an attractive place to live, work, visit and do business.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Waipahu Community Association helped to continue to revitalize and encourage further local economic growth in waipahu by providing an open farmers market venue that local produce vendors and shop owners can sell their products. The community is able to access and purchase locally grown produce, meats and seafood at prices that are typically lower than area retail supermarkets. This allows households to stretch food budgets further while providing access to fresh and healthy foods. In addition, the marketplace continues to serve as a gathering place to hold community events such as ethnic celebrations and on several ocassions--the annual taste of waipahu event. Due to the large attendance every year, the taste of waipahu event was moved to august ahrens elementary school surrounded by neighborhoods, parking accessibility and public transportation are in shorter distances and a more enjoyable atmosphere for attendees. This event showcases local businesses and restaurants, area schools and celebrates community pride.
$271,190 spent$325,834 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn addition, wca has a community resource and technology center located in its office space to provide micro-enterprise classes, educational and employment skills workshops, and access to technological devices such as tablets, laptops, copiers, fax and internet access for small business owners and members of the general public including school-aged students. This program has a satellite center in the pupu area to serve primary and secondary school students, families and adults. The pupu area is a low-income area in waipahu with a predominant migrant population known in the past to have criminal activity and other related socio-economic issues. Both centers provide support and services to over 2,000 people annually.
Further, wca established the heal project in 2016 through beautification projects and trolley rides to help local businesses, enhance community spirit, attract people and new clientele to waipahu and perpetuate the communitys rich history through dialogue and learning opportunities. This program works closely with other area organizations such as non-profit organizations, schools, civic clubs, businesses and community volunteers. In addition, wca participates in numerous community events such as the waipahu family fun day, area school activities, christmas parade, health programs and others.furthermore, wca held three community beautification projects to keep waipahu neighborhoods and assets like the hawaii plantation village clean and vibrant.
Further, wca held two food distributions in 2025. In june 2025, wca with its donors and sponsors, provided food units for nearly 300 seniors living in public housing at hale kamalu and hale hoolulu in waipahu. In december 2025, we held another food distribution in the same venue and served the same elderly. Lastly, we created a scholarship program to provide financial support to waipahu high school seniors approaching graduation. Applicants must meet several requirements including: completion of an application including a personal essay, providing a resume, have a gpa of 3.0 or higher, demonstrate financial need, must live in the 96797 zip code, and participate in an in-person interview with the scholarship committee. In 2025, wca provided four scholarships.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $271,190.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.8M to $3.6M (−6%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of WAIPAHU COMMUNITY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
77% 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 WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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 WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION'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.
Against its field
WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 WAIPAHU COMMUNITY 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 WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION?
- WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,516 to it, the largest being THE PEOPLE'S FUND ($68,516). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $88,516 in grants to WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION?
- THE PEOPLE'S FUND is the largest funder on record, with $68,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAIPAHU COMMUNITY 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.
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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 2 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