Hawaii · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN
FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,683 to it, the largest being COOKE FOUNDATION LIMITED ($66,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $708k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $245k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Friends of Amy B H Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden does
Mission
As stewards of amy greenwell ethnobotanical garden and community forest, we cultivate opportunities to engage with hawai'I's unique biocultural heritage through place-based education, community-driven conservation, and collaborative research. We will protect the garden in perpetuity, restoring its living collections and cultural sites, and build partnerships that support a thriving, resilient landscape and agroecological sustainability. Ka m?lama ?ana I ka mo?omeheu. I mea e ola ai mai k?ia mua aku-preserving culture. So that there is life to come.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Organizational growth and leadership the friends of amy b.h. Greenwell ethnobotanical garden ("the garden") built out its permanent staff to seven, including new hires in education and forest maintenance. Staff undertook professional training in program management, conservation partnerships, first aid, and sustainable propagation techniques. A doris duke conservation fellow completed a community network study in the summer, and the garden was preparing to host its first kupu/americorps conservation leadership development program intern in early 2025. Digital outreach expanded significantly, with a redesigned website, increased social media presence, and multimedia documentation of the garden's programs. Native plant nursery and conservation the garden distributed a total of 898 trees and 563 plants in 2024 through a combination of giveaways, public sales, and restoration partnerships. Over 50 native, endemic, and polynesian-introduced species were propagated and shared, including rare taxa like brighamia insignis, hibiscus clayi, and santalum paniculatum. Outplanting on garden grounds also resumed, with native trees and plants such as scaevola chamissoniana added to the landscape.…
$421,359 spent$64,662 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $421,359.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $1.7M (+12%).
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: 2019 89% · 2020 36% · 2021 3% · 2022 51% · 2023 39% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN’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
FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 64% · 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
65% of FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.5M
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.
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In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN?
- FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,683 to it, the largest being COOKE FOUNDATION LIMITED ($66,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $244,683 in grants to FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN?
- COOKE FOUNDATION LIMITED is the largest funder on record, with $66,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 7 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