Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER
HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,990,122 to it, the largest being DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION ($1,046,394). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Hawaii Wildlife Center does
Mission
Care and conservation of native winged wildlife to reverse the extinction trend in hawaii.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided care and professional rehabilitation to over 1,000 sick and injured native birds and bats throughout the state of hawaii, including federally threatened or endangered species. Provided treatment for a variety of injuries, illness, malnutrition, emaciation, and more. Expanded hospital services to include more intensive medical procedures and surgeries. The center cares for hundreds of native bird and bat patients annually from throughout the state of hawaii, with a majority of patients originating from oahu, maui nui, and hawaii island. Center staff also assist with kauai patients from save our shearwaters when requested. To make a statewide program possible, hwc managed a statewide transportation network of volunteer pilots and drivers, as well as coordinated volunteers to work in wildlife hospital and public areas. Staff also managed the oahu seabird aid program, which rescued over 1,000 birds in a four-week timeframe. Hwc continued to serve as a wildlife rescue help dispatch and answered over 1,000 calls from the public throughout the year.
$799,129 spent$622,810 earned by the program73% of program spendingThe Hawaii Wildlife Center is the fiscal sponsor of the save our shearwaters (sos) program. Sos is an organization that provides professional rehabilitation to sick and injured native birds and bats on kauai. The sos program was created in 1979 and helps hundreds of seabirds as well as other native winged wildlife species annually on kauai. In addition to managing the fiscal operations of the sos program, hwc also provided additional veterinary support to the sos team to ensure that the program had all the necessary medications for patients in their care and provided access to specialized medical procedures when needed through hwc partners.
$255,886 spent$199,428 earned by the program23% of program spendingHwc continued to provide outreach and education opportunities to local students and community groups. 33 groups visited the center, a total of 406 students and community members. Hwc also participated in 19 community events on hawaii island and oahu, estimating over 11,000 interactions with the public from those events. Staff utilized social media to keep the community engaged in wildlife conservation and to share uplifting and educational content, partnered with conservation council of hawaii to put on another successful hawaii island festival of birds, a full-day family- friendly event spotlighting critical conservation efforts and building joy and enthusiasm around native bird species. Hwc wildlife team also continued internship and externship programs at the facility. Wildlife rehabilitation internships provided an introduction to native hawaiian wildlife rehabilitation and hands-on experience in animal care, wildlife conservation and some aspects of veterinary medicine. Two-week externships were also available to current veterinary school students to build clinical skills along with their animal care experience. The externships provide veterinary students exposure to wildlife…
$46,946 spent$36,588 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,101,961.
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 $1.5M to $1.9M (+26%).
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 3% · 2018 7% · 2019 4% · 2020 15% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Linda S Elliott
CEO
Board chair
Shane Vincent
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $28k → $70k.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 WILDLIFE CENTER’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 WILDLIFE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 96% · 2019 50% · 2020 48% · 2021 31% · 2022 44% · 2023 29% — 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 WILDLIFE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 WILDLIFE CENTER draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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 WILDLIFE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $365k on record.
- Department of Defense$365k
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 WILDLIFE 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 WILDLIFE 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 WILDLIFE CENTER?
- HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,990,122 to it, the largest being DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION ($1,046,394). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,990,122 in grants to HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER?
- DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,046,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII WILDLIFE 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.
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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 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing