Hawaii · Nonprofit
AINA MOMONA
AINA MOMONA (Hawaii) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,315,712 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,132,175). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Aina Momona does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ka'amola restoration - located on the east end of moloka'I, ka'amola is home to 'Aina Momona's restoration and cultural learning efforts. Our work focuses on revitalizing the 'ahupua'a, restoring watershed health, and preserving native ecosystems through traditional and modern land management practices. From erosion mitigation to replanting native species and maintaining the historic keawanui fishpond, we are committed to fostering a thriving, sustainable relationship between the land and the molokai community.
$917,453 spentof which $1,000 as grants56% of program spendingAina Momona also has the following program areas. Aina - Aina Momona strives to preserve, enhance and protect aina throughout the hawaiian islands, working directly with communities to malama the land. Aina Momona recognize that social justice and environmental justice are inextricably linked. The wellbeing of the aina and people are one, and by bringing greater resilience to our communities Aina Momona can restore greater health to our land. Ai - Aina Momona is dedicated to restoring nourishment to the lahui hawai`I through food sovereignty and the restoration of subsistence practices. We implore our people to join us in restoring ai to the lahui through revitalizing traditional kalo production practices so that we can end our reliance on less ethical food systems for sustenance. One of the primary goals at Aina Momona is to kanu mea ai, plant edible food, for our people to live off of the land once more. Wai - Aina Momona fights for the water rights of our aina, kua'aina, and aina kupuna, because Aina Momona appreciates that the just allocation of water resources is essential to the promotion of customary practices, food sovereignty, and social justice. Ea - Aina Momona…
$712,568 spentof which $437,093 as grants44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,630,021.
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 2024 to 2025, from $525k to $1.2M (+129%).
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: 2020 46% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2024 56% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of AINA MOMONA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 31 funders, grant income rose $30k → $1.3M.
15 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 AINA MOMONA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. 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
AINA MOMONA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
80% 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 AINA MOMONA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 39% · 2020 51% · 2021 36% · 2022 33% · 2023 26% — 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
29% of AINA MOMONA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
AINA MOMONA draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
AINA MOMONA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AINA MOMONA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AINA MOMONA
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 AINA MOMONA: 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 AINA MOMONA?
- AINA MOMONA (Hawaii) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,315,712 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,132,175). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AINA MOMONA have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $4,315,712 in grants to AINA MOMONA, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AINA MOMONA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,132,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AINA MOMONA 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.
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 57 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