Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION
HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,538 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($510,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $863k
What Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization does
Mission
Serve as the primary hub of wildfire prevention, mitigation and planning activities in the hawaii pacific region through proactive, collaborative and forward thinking projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mitigation: providing technical, social, and financial assistance to communities and large landowners to mitigate wildfire hazards including vegetation. Education & outreach: increase awareness and better prepare people and natural resources for wildfire. Fire science communication: increase the uptake of best practices around wildfire management and mitigation for improved fire outcomes.
$991,640 spent$118,877 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $991,640.
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 2023 to 2024, from $361k to $863k (+139%).
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 90% · 2018 90% · 2019 89% · 2020 69% · 2021 59% · 2022 88% · 2023 68% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION’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.
Board chair
Dan Dennison
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $314k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION’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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 58% · 2022 61% · 2023 64% — 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
50% of HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% 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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $548k 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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION runs a healthier operating margin 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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.6M
- Department of the Interior$304k
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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION: 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 WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION?
- HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,538 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($510,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,485,538 in grants to HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION 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 15 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