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CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION
CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,567,719 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($2,202,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Consortium for Hawaii Ecological Engineering Education does
Mission
To design, develop, plan and carry out educational programs, primarily for hawaii school children and especially for those of native hawaiian descent.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mahope o ke kula ke ao mau ana (a continuation of learning after school) program inspires native hawaiian students and their facilitators to achieve academic success in math and science through the experience of hawaiian cultural values and practices with hands-on learning throughout the school year, intersession, and summer breaks. In 2023, this project was enhanced as the mahope o ke kula ke ao mau ana: ke kaa enehana (steamobile) project and embedded steamobile, trauma-informed care (tic) and social emotional learning (sel) components into the existing project.
$1,761,823 spent57% of program spendingThe goal of the ku aalii project is to inspire students from native hawaiian communities to achieve socio-economic and academic success by building resilience through culture-based trauma-informed care (tic) education and the experience of hawaiian cultural values and practices with hands-on learning during class, after school hours, and over intersession and summer breaks.
$654,217 spent21% of program spendingThe mala kupono project establishes school/community gardens that provide k-12 students with fresh food and a learning platform for stem, agriculture/sustainability, culture, and healthy eating. This project aims to increase students' academic success and meet their immediate basic health needs, while also re-energizing interest in agriculture/sustainability and its important role in the lives of the hawaiian community.
$228,564 spent7% of program spendingThe malama iho project supports the social service disaster recovery and resilience focus area by developing a cohort of skilled trainers within three maui-based agencies to provide trauma-informed care (tic) training to serve families and communities affected by the maui fires. In addition, the malama mau program was started in 2025 to enhance educator wellness, foster trauma-informed leadership, and strengthen culturally grounded stem learning at lahaina intermediate school through a dual-impact strategy. This model is specifically designed to support both parts of the school community: educators and administrators receive dedicated time and resources to address grief, trauma, and professional burnout, while students continue to get high-quality instruction from substitute teachers trained in native hawaiian practices and stem content. Hoakea is a state-wide project to give every student in hawaii an opportunity to connect with the waa (canoe), people, places, and stories of their community. It is a multi-day event held in east hawaii to bring students, educators, families, waa organizations, cultural practitioners, and aina partners together through hands-on learning…
$463,131 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,107,735.
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 2023 to 2024, from $510k to $2.9M (+477%).
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: 2017 24% · 2018 16% · 2019 57% · 2020 45% · 2021 70% · 2022 84% · 2023 83% · 2024 54% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Kaipo Perez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $335k → $15k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION’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
CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 65% · 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
86% of CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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
CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.8M on record.
- Department of Education$12.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
- Department of Agriculture$1.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$233k
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 CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION
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
93% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Partners in Development Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION?
- CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,567,719 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($2,202,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $4,567,719 in grants to CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $2,202,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION 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 5 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