Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Hawaiian Volcano Education and Resilience Institute does
Mission
The Hawaiian Volcano Education and Resilience Institute works with the Island of Hawaii community including keiki (youth) and kupuna (seniors), visitors, and other engaged stakeholders to improve disaster preparedness, response and recovery through volcano education, monitoring, resilience network building, and youth development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HVERI's Volcano Education program creates and shares educational content both on social media and at in-person outreach events, to boost preparedness against natural hazards in our island's communities. Kilauea produced 36 eruptive episodes during 2025, marked by lava fountains up to 1500 feet or 450 meters in height. While technically all part of a single eruption marked by pauses, each 2025 episode created challenges akin to individual eruptions. Lava flows were entirely contained within the summit caldera, but lava fountains produced high levels of volcanic gas, tephra, fine ash, and glassy Pele's hair which were carried into nearby communities and infrastructure by prevailing winds. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory documented 10 events during 2025 with impacts to island communities, highlighted by "fist-sized clasts" of tephra falling on Highway 11 during episode 35 in October. Public concern grew as airborne hazards became more impactful and widespread throughout the year, underscoring the need for consistent communication and education about those threats. HVERI's online content is produced and shared in 3 formats based on prior grant success: written articles, short…
$95,982 spent$78,889 earned by the program33% of program spendingHVERI's Digital Resilience program builds community resilience against natural disasters by networking community members on trusted social media groups, training social media groups as Digital Resilience Hubs (DRHs) that can be activated in collaboration with Hawaii County Civil Defense and physical Resilience Hubs, and integrating digital literacy and artificial intelligence (AI) training, tools, and strategy into local communities. During 2025, the program continued training on Digital Resilience Hub Operations and Social Media Moderation In Disasters, with 12 individuals over 3 sessions representing 5 DRHs. SMMID training includes a half-day seminar, a 2-week moderation mentorship on the Hawaii Tracker Facebook Group with ~180k members at the end of 2025, and a digital simulation based on the 2018 eruption dealing with sharing information sourced from social media. The DRH framework is built on the successes of the Hawaii Tracker Facebook Group, which HVERI continues to maintain as the flagship DRH, training ecosystem, and proving ground for trainees. Its membership, of which an estimated 21% reside within Hawaii according to our analysis of limited Facebook data, grew by 32%…
$86,668 spent$28,728 earned by the program30% of program spendingHVERI's newest program builds community resilience by helping youth develop competence, confidence, connection, character, and compassion as key outcomes to help them overcome severe stress and high-risk conditions. Leaning on the Volcano Education and Digital Resilience programs to provide opportunities, youth are empowered to be involved in decision-making, develop leadership skills, meaningfully engage with community and make real contributions, develop and test new knowledge and practical skills, experience success, develop positive and supportive relationships with adults and peers, and engage with adults around common goals. Over time, facilitators provide supports that create a safe physical and emotional environment for youth with clear appropriate boundaries and guidance, facilitate supportive youth-adult relationships, and engage family, school, and community as partners with youth. They help overcome mistakes, encourage a sense of belonging, build new skills, and enable youth to better their communities. The "Volcano Outreach Traveling Toolkit" offered up to 8 educational component activities for skill development, to increase public awareness of the science and hazards…
$104,978 spent$39,728 earned by the program36% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $287,628.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $210k to $66k (−69%).
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: 2024 54% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE’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
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE.
“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
60% of HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Hawaii funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE's revenue fell 70% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE: 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 HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE?
- HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,100 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,100 in grants to HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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