Hawaii · Nonprofit
HOA AINA O MAKAHA
HOA AINA O MAKAHA (Hawaii) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,121,008 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($562,752). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $588k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $560k
What Hoa Aina O Makaha does
Mission
Hoa Aina O Makaha (land of makaha shared in friendship) is more than a destination farm or nonprofit organization. The embrace of a sanctuary is felt by whoever enters the gates and a sense of belonging usually follows. Once a barren piece of land from the past and now a thriving educational resource center, Hoa Aina O Makaha has been a village commitment since the beginning. Our mission focuses on community self-reliance, supporting family, and peace-making on the waianae coast.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Na keiki o ka'aina (children of the land) - is the core program of the organization, its principles are based on the traditional hawaiian values of malama aina: caring for the land and each other. Resources and practical hands-on activities enhancing classroom lesson plans are offered as curriculum. This program has inspired thousands of makaha elementary students for over 30 years and has also been used as a template for the farm to school garden initiative popularized 20 years later by several nonprofit organizations throughout hawaii. Ke ala (the way) - the learning center was established in 1996 as an extension of the na keiki o ka 'aina program to visiting schools. Ke ala is a classroom without walls holding space for over 4,000 students every year. A delicate relationship between humans and the environment is observed by both private and public schools all over oahu when they learn how to respect the land through hands-on activities at the farm. The curriculum highlights three subjects: animal + plant care, cultural history of the hawaiian islands, and environmental science solutions. U-pick (farm to basket experience) - growing your own food became a popular topic in 2020…
$383,515 spentof which $6,280 as grants$84,752 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $383,515.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $493k to $560k (+14%).
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 6% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% · 2024 9% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of HOA AINA O MAKAHA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $18k → $218k.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 HOA AINA O MAKAHA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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
HOA AINA O MAKAHA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 65%; 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 HOA AINA O MAKAHA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 88% · 2021 44% · 2022 59% · 2023 31% — 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 HOA AINA O MAKAHA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
86% of HOA AINA O MAKAHA's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HOA AINA O MAKAHA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOA AINA O MAKAHA
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 HOA AINA O MAKAHA: 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 HOA AINA O MAKAHA?
- HOA AINA O MAKAHA (Hawaii) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,121,008 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($562,752). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOA AINA O MAKAHA have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,121,008 in grants to HOA AINA O MAKAHA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOA AINA O MAKAHA?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $562,752 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOA AINA O MAKAHA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 21 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