Hawaii · Nonprofit
We Must Protect Inc
We Must Protect Inc (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,744 to it, the largest being MERCURY ONE INC ($450,419). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $980k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $706k
- Net assets
- $335k
What We Must Protect Inc does
Mission
Engage in research and public education for the benefit of those vulnerable populations in our community that deserve to be honored and cared for.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We responded to the disaster caused by Hurricane Helene. We provided: 1. Emergency communications and internet devices costing $92,000. 2. Cold weather clothing costing $175,000 3. Partial funding to construct 5 replacement dwelling for victims of Hurrican Helene costing $259,000 4. Emergency medical kits costing $72,000 We continued to raise awareness and advocate for the ongoing needs of the Maui community.
$666,123 spentof which $5,000 as grants$879,043 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $666,123.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $60k to $338k (+461%).
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.
100% of We Must Protect Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 We Must Protect Inc’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
We Must Protect Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 We Must Protect Inc.
“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
We Must Protect Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
We Must Protect Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like We Must Protect Inc
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for We Must Protect Inc: 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 We Must Protect Inc?
- We Must Protect Inc (Hawaii) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,744 to it, the largest being MERCURY ONE INC ($450,419). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does We Must Protect Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $705,744 in grants to We Must Protect Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of We Must Protect Inc?
- MERCURY ONE INC is the largest funder on record, with $450,419 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like We Must Protect Inc 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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