Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER
HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,154 to it, the largest being AES Hawaii Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Hawaii Agriculture Research Center does
Mission
To support a viable agricultural sector by researching and applying relevant science and technology to achieve practical solutions and by identifying new agricultural opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Specialize in horticultural crop research including control of diseases and pests through integrated pest management, agronomy, and plant nutrition, plant physiology, breeding, and genetic engineering and tissue culture to solve problems affecting agriculture and related fields locally, nationally, and internationally.
$2,765,221 spent$1,282,659 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,765,221.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.6M to $9.3M (+7%).
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 22% · 2018 26% · 2019 19% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 45% · 2023 29% · 2024 46% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% 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.
Chief executive
Roberta Melton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $97 → $7k.
2 of 6 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kunia Village Title Holding Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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
HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“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
96% of HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $792 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
HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.6M
- Department of the Interior$71k
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 HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Hawaii Foundation for Agriculture Research · exempt
- Kunia Village Title Holding Corporation · exempt
- Kunia Village Development Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER?
- HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,154 to it, the largest being AES Hawaii Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $169,154 in grants to HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER?
- AES Hawaii Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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