Hawaii · Nonprofit
HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION
HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $71,100 to it, the largest being FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ($71,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Hanalei River Heritage Foundation does
Program
Mission statement the Hanalei River Heritage Foundation perpetuates ?ike kupuna, native hawaiian traditional knowledge, through community-based stewardship of cultural and natural resources on kaua`I. The foundation restores lo`I kalo, `auwai, native habitat, and wahi pana; trains `ohana and cultural practitioners in traditional ecological knowledge; and develops educational materials that advance cultural continuity, food security, and responsible care of ?aina. Program service accomplishments pu?uhonua o `uhau`iole cultural and agricultural restoration restoration of lo`I kalo, `auwai, and native plant systems at keahua/`uhau`iole and wailua kai, supported by a state of hawai?I grant-in-aid contract that concluded june 30, 2025. Over the grant period the foundation cultivated three active lo`I kalo serving as native plant and kalo nurseries, trained 10 `ohana through monthly ho`onui`ike workshops, hosted 10 la aloha `aina community workdays engaging approximately 50 participants, cre
$167,298 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $15k to $109k (+617%).
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.
Chief executive
Kamehaloha Smith
CEO/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $19k → $33k.
From the IRS filings of HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $517k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$313k
- Department of the Interior$204k
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Organizations like HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $71,100 to it, the largest being FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ($71,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $71,100 in grants to HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $71,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANALEI RIVER HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing