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MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY
MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,848 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Magical Creatures of Hamakua - Animal Rescue and Sanctuary does
Mission
Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and offer lifelong sanctuary to animals on the Big Island while serving the Hawaiian community with programs that promote kindness, compassion, and stewardship. Magical Creatures Sanctuary provides lifelong care to the animals we rescue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program 1: Sanctuary & Animal Care: Magical Creatures Sanctuary provides lifelong sanctuary, individualized care, and rehabilitation for rescued farmed animals in need. In 2025, the organization cared for more than 100 resident animals, including goats, sheep, pigs, cows, chickens, and other farmed animals, many of whom are elderly, disabled, orphaned, or survivors of neglect, abandonment, injury, or medical hardship. The sanctuary provided daily feeding, safe housing, enrichment, hoof care, medication, veterinary treatment, and specialized support as needed. A significant part of the sanctuary's work involves animals with complex medical or mobility needs, including residents who require prosthetics, braces, wheelchairs, wound care, chronic-condition management, or long-term rehabilitation. The sanctuary also responded to community inquiries from individuals seeking guidance and support for farmed animal care, helping fill a gap in services for non-companion animals in Hawaii. The sanctuary remains the heart of the organization, and its education and outreach programs are rooted in the care and stories of its residents.
$71,649 spent75% of program spendingProgram 2: Internship & Volunteer Program Magical Creatures Sanctuary's on-site internship and volunteer program provides immersive, hands-on education in farmed animal care, sanctuary operations, nonprofit service, and compassionate stewardship. In 2025, interns and volunteers supported the sanctuary's daily operations by assisting with feeding, cleaning, enrichment, animal observation, basic care routines, facility maintenance, administrative tasks, social media support, and donor and sponsor engagement. The internship program typically hosts several full-time interns at a time who live communally at the sanctuary and participate directly in the daily rhythm of animal care. Many participants are students or early-career individuals interested in veterinary medicine, animal welfare, nonprofit work, or compassionate living. The program includes education about farmed animal behavior, individualized care, ethical relationships with animals, and the sanctuary's plant-based values.
$6,890 spent7% of program spendingProgram 3: Outreach & Education: Magical Creatures Sanctuary provides public education and community outreach to increase compassion for farmed animals and promote responsible stewardship. In 2025, the organization continued to welcome visitors through educational sanctuary tours and private visits, sharing the individual stories of rescued animals and helping community members better understand the needs, personalities, and experiences of farmed animals. The sanctuary also engaged the public through educational events, tabling, social media storytelling, donor communications, and community conversations about animal care and compassion. These efforts helped connect supporters, students, volunteers, and community members with the sanctuary's mission. Outreach and education remained closely tied to the sanctuary's residents, using real-life examples of rescue, rehabilitation, disability support, aging, trust-building, and lifelong care to encourage empathy and more compassionate choices.
$17,338 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95,877.
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 2022 to 2023, from $52k to $100k (+93%).
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.
94% of MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Lolita Perez Ayala
Chair (January to October 2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $16k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY’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
MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 62% — 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
77% of MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY
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In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY?
- MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,848 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $40,848 in grants to MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAGICAL CREATURES OF HAMAKUA - ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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