Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE
HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,288 to it, the largest being American Forests ($85,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Harold Kl Castle Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- McInerny Foundation--shared funders
- AES Hawaii Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 49% · 2019 18% · 2020 14% · 2021 19% · 2022 11% · 2023 14% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $64k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE’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
HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 68% · 2021 37% · 2022 78% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $282 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Harold Kl Castle Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchHI · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- McInerny Foundation--shared fundersHI · backs 95 organizations that share your funders
- AES Hawaii Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nmf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Laurence H Dorcy Hawaiian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Makana Aloha Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Garmar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maurice and Joanna Sullivan Family Foundationshared fundersHI · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- The Queen's Medical Centershared fundersHI · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- First Hawaiian Bank Foundationshared fundersHI · backs 89 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $260k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$250k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
83% 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
- Hawaii Forest Industry Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE?
- HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,288 to it, the largest being American Forests ($85,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $282,288 in grants to HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE?
- American Forests is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAI'I FOREST INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing