Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE
HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE (Hawaii) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,389,522 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($277,550). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $958k
What Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agriculture does
Mission
The Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agriculture (hip ag) is a conscious movement of inspired individuals living a model of sustainability through direct engagement with the earth and service to youth and communities. Located in beautiful, historic north kohala, hip ag is a growing community that cultivates a diverse collection of polynesian crops and operates as an educational site offering sustainable agriculture courses, youth programming, community workshops and events. Through farming and hands-on education, hip agriculture is pioneering a new paradigm of conscious agriculture that honors indigenous wisdom, food sovereignty, and the transformational power of returning to the land. Hip ag's mission is to practice and teach regenerative agricultural education programs. Hip ag's vision is to heal and inspire hawaii through resilient agriculture education. Hip ag's values and guiding principles are: 1. Practice traditional pacific agriculture that produces food and medicine. 2. Provide exp
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During 2024, the organization discontinued running the kohala food hub, and the program was transferred to another hawaii, 501(c)(3) public charity.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agriculture (hip ag) farm program practices a variety of farming methods, including market gardening, agroforestry systems, tropical permaculture techniques and more. The farm serves as an experiential education site and model for regenerative agricultural systems. The goal is to inspire and grow the next generation of farmers. Hip ag is on a mission to restore food sovereignty to the islands of hawaii. Hip ag feels that increasing access and sharing plant starts of these food security crops are crucial parts of the solution. (continued on schedule o)
$406,803 spent$90,104 earned by the program72% of program spendingHip ag's youth education program hosts farm field trips to youth that teaches about canoe crops, harvesting fresh fruit, tasting of new foods, organic gardening, nutrition, mindfulness, leadership skills, and lo'I kalo stream restoration. Hip ag partners with kohala high school to support their school farm and career technical education lines with teaching, gardening, orchard care, being a community advisor, supporting garden to cafeteria program, hosting senior internships, and feeding students farm to table meals and beverages. (continued on schedule o)
$131,182 spent23% of program spendingSoil health conservation & innovation program aims to conduct 12 soil health demonstration trials (shdts) across hawaii island, focusing on evaluating the soil health, agronomic productivity, economic, and social impacts of integrating regenerative practices into production systems for staple crops. These trials will assess the impacts of incorporating biofumigant cover crops, soil carbon amendments (compost + biochar), and traditional polynesian polyculture techniques into production models for high disturbance crops such as taro, sweet potato, and banana. The data from the trials will be compiled and analyzed, resulting in specific and actionable recommendations to producers, facilitating increased adoption of these practices.
$28,961 spent$14,268 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $566,946.
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 $348k to $1.0M (+189%).
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 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 41% · 2021 24% · 2022 4% · 2023 23% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE’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. 1 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $26k → $96k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE’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
HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 38% · 2021 41% · 2022 33% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $339k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.6M
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 INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE: 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 INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE?
- HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE (Hawaii) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,389,522 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($277,550). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,389,522 in grants to HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $277,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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