Hawaii · Nonprofit
HIKI OLA
HIKI OLA (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,295 to it, the largest being doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ($181,695). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $250k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $368k
What Hiki Ola does
Mission
Reforest degraded landscapes to native forest in ways that educate and advance hawaiian cultural practices. This land is protected in perpetuity with a conservation easement which ensures that the work that Hiki Ola does on the land is enduring. The land is essential in advancing the purpose of the organization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hosted visits for students from ehunuikaimalino, hawai'I tech academy, kua o ka la, konawaena high school special ed., halau kik, ka'umeke ka'eo, alo kehau, and honaunau elementary school.
$12,851 spent$17,291 earned by the program20% of program spendingFacilitated workshops to advance native hawaiian craftwork, especially traditional weaving practices utilizing native vine 'ie'ie. Each workshop was free to the community, included a day in the forest and hands on practical craftwork.
$17,038 spent$15,000 earned by the program26% of program spendingCompleted the $177,499 racial, equity and justice conservation cooperative agreement to bridge native hawaiian and pacific islanders to farm bill programs through workshops, critical demographic analysis, and reporting.
$3,390 spent$16,287 earned by the program5% of program spendingHiki Ola provided project management services for local conservation organizations assisting them in planning and executing reforestation project work. Hiki Ola provided a 2-month college internship program to assist interested students in conservation non-profit work. Hiki Ola continued work on a community-based agroforestry project that will be used to demonstrate the cultivation and use of various medicinal and edible native and canoe plants.
$32,027 spentof which $3,345 as grants$83,106 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,306.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $18k to $301k (+1546%).
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: 2021 70% · 2022 30% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HIKI OLA’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. 2 of the last 5 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
Andrea Mahi
Executive director
Board chair
Gregory Hendrickson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $115k.
From the IRS filings of HIKI OLA’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
HIKI OLA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
95% 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 HIKI OLA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
HIKI OLA draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 2 states in all.
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
HIKI OLA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding HIKI OLA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $177k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$177k
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 HIKI OLA
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 HIKI OLA: 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 HIKI OLA?
- HIKI OLA (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,295 to it, the largest being doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ($181,695). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIKI OLA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $204,295 in grants to HIKI OLA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIKI OLA?
- doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $181,695 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIKI OLA 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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