Hawaii · Public charity
Aina Momona
AINA MOMONA (hawaiian for the fertile or rich land) is a community organization dedicated to achieving environmental health and sustainability through restoring social justice and hawaiian sovereignty.
- $438k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $410k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,867
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 32
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Aina Momona funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $410k | 64% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $192k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $2.0M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grants Central Station | $400,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Maui Firefighters Relief | $300,000 | 1 | 95% |
| Na Aikane O Maui Inc | $251,500 | 1 | 12% |
| Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| We Are Oceania | $200,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Lahaina Community Land Trust | $128,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Maui Historical Society | $100,000 | 1 | 39% |
| Friends of Childrens Justice Center | $42,567 | 3 | 3% |
| Ohana Waa | $40,000 | 1 | 27% |
| Maui Youth and Family Services Inc | $31,867 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($700k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Aina Momona supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Na Hoaloha O Ka'Aina Ltd · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Frost Family Foundation · The O L Moore Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · The Strong Foundation · The People's Fund
How this is measured
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About Aina Momona
- How much does Aina Momona give?
- Aina Momona reported 14 itemized grants totaling $409,527, out of $438,093 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 32 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Aina Momona fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (89%), Environment (5%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
- Who are Aina Momona's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Grants Central Station ($401k), Maui Firefighters Relief ($300k), Na Aikane O Maui Inc ($252k).
- Does Aina Momona fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Aina Momona?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Na Hoaloha O Ka'Aina Ltd, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools.
- Where is Aina Momona based?
- Aina Momona is based in HI.
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