Punahou School: $146.4M Revenue, $139.4M Expenses

Punahou School earns a C on the efficiency rubric — the median bucket on the NonprofitTruth scale, indicating performance close to the national midpoint across financial reserves, officer compensation, and revenue consistency. Composite score: 53/100.

Annual revenue at Punahou School runs $146.4M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the financial-health factor, Punahou School runs thin — assets relative to annual spending fall below the cushion nonprofit-finance experts typically recommend.

Five-year revenue has grown modestly. Punahou School is not expanding rapidly but is not shrinking either; the trajectory is consistent with stable donor and grant relationships. Officer compensation is modest relative to organizational size: Punahou School reports $2.8M in total compensation for current officers and key employees (Form 990 Part IX, line 5) against $146.4M in revenue. The ratio is well within the bands third-party charity raters consider reasonable at this scale. In the Education category, Punahou School sits alongside universities, K-12 systems, scholarship funds, and education-research organizations. Education-sector nonprofits often hold large endowments, which affects how the reserves-and-revenue figures should be read.