California · Nonprofit
Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc
Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,860 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1999 the Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to help conserve protect and restore the biological diversity historical legacy and cultural heritage of Kuaihelani Midway Atoll
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Annual albatross nest census The annual nesting albatross census team 10 to 12 volunteers on Midway Atoll provides vital information found in few places on earth to researchers managers conservation groups and the global community interested in preserving and protecting oceanic seabirds and their nesting habitats Since 1991 the annual census of black-footed albatrosses or Kaupu Phoebastria nigripes and Laysan albatrosses or Ml Phoebastria immutabilis on Midway Atoll has provided accurate information regarding the numbers of nesting albatross pairs at Midway Atoll This long-term dataset has become increasingly valuable since nesting sites on other Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Kamole or Laysan Island and Lalo or French Frigate Shoals are not easily accessible Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge provides for the worlds largest breeding colony of Laysan and black-footed albatrosses in the world The Friends of Midway Atoll supported this intensive and expensive scientific collection of valuable data in 2025 as well as in years past
Volunteers - A very successful program on Midway Atoll NWR has been a long-standing tradition of supporting 4 biological technician volunteers every 6 months to accomplish critical wildlife and habitat conservation on Midway Atoll Volunteers are often recent graduates in the field of conservation Volunteers receive excellent hands-on training and experiences in habitat restoration research of seabirds animal care such as treating endangered Laysan ducks with botulism and conducting monitoring of other threatened and endangered species such as green sea turtles and Hawaiian monk seals FOMA provides stipends to each of the volunteers
Wildlife camera - In 2025 FOMA established a live wildlife camera on Midway Atoll to allow the general public to be able to view and enjoy the year-round wildlife of Midway Atoll FOMA secured a remote internet service to be able to livestream the annual cycle of birds on Midway At one point in time there were over 2000 viewers watching at the same time Viewers are from around the world This camera allows FOMA and the National Wildlife Refuge to share this remote and special place with the world
Operating store with sales of Midway and Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument logoed items to generate funds funds for its exempt purpose including the support for habitat restoration environmental education and interpretive activities and historical celebrations on Midway Atoll NWR
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $79k to $122k (+54%).
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.
97% of Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $105 → $118.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc’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 Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc?
- Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,860 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $16,860 in grants to Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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