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Hawaii Seafood Council
Hawaii Seafood Council (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $195k
What Hawaii Seafood Council does
Mission
Hawaii Seafood Council (hsc) supports responsible fisheries and sustainable seafood in hawaii for future generations through consumer education, outreach and research. Hsc believes that marine fisheries, fishing and seafood are essential to hawaii's unique culture, food traditions, diversified economy, food security and healthy lifestyle.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The seafood industry program (ind) supported the organization's mission by preserving hawaii's seafood market reputation related to the concerns of seafood safety and sustainability. This is completed through outreach, education, training and research programs.
$26,740 spent12% of program spendingThe hawaii seafood marketing in the age of covid (mac) project focuses on the branding and promotion of hawaii seafood in response to the covid pandemic impacts and what lays ahead in terms of surviving hawaii fishing and seafood operations and the hawaii and us seafood market demand. Branding and promoting hawaii seafood will respond to changes in the fishery, seafood market and the consumer and how seafood is purchased and consumed in the covid era.
$101,819 spent46% of program spendingBranding hawaii seafood with fishing community outreach project (bhs), will distinguish the hawaii seafood brand by focusing on the unique attributes of the source by providing consumers (residents, visitors, and others) the unique opportunity to experience and better appreciate the source of hawaii seafood through 1) fishing village/fish auction tours, 2) a web-based virtual tour, and 3) community outreach events.
$91,801 spent42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $220,360.
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 2020 to 2021, from $247k to $197k (−20%).
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 50% · 2018 36% · 2019 44% · 2020 85% · 2021 45% · 2024 54% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Hawaii Seafood Council’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. 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
John Kaneko
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
From the IRS filings of Hawaii Seafood Council’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
100% of Hawaii Seafood Council's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
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
Hawaii Seafood Council's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Hawaii Seafood Council receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $827k on record.
- Department of Commerce$827k
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 Seafood Council
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hawaii Seafood Council: 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 Seafood Council?
- Hawaii Seafood Council (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hawaii Seafood Council have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to Hawaii Seafood Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hawaii Seafood Council?
- HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hawaii Seafood Council 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing