Hawaii · Nonprofit
MALAMA LEARNING CENTER
MALAMA LEARNING CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,895,332 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($1,405,061). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Malama Learning Center does
Mission
To inspire communities to care for hawaii by perpetuating conservation, culture and sustainability through education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ola na kini: ola na kini is the Malama Learning Center's (mlc) core initiative, focused on healing the land, the ocean, and the multitude of life through active community engagement and education. This primary program includes growing plants in project nurseries, running school programs directly at restoration sites, providing conservation leadership internships, implementing wildfire prevention activities, hosting native plant adoption events, and organizing monthly community work days.
$325,325 spent35% of program spendingAina-based education is a comprehensive educational approach utilized by mlc both at its primary sites and throughout the wider community. This initiative focuses on connecting people to the natural environment and stewardship. Program components include teacher professional development opportunities, coordination of annual large-scale events such as arbor day and earth day, and multi-day community outreach via the hoakea mauka to makai navigating our future program, a collaborative effort with the hawaii department of education (hidoe) and other partners.
$425,051 spent46% of program spendingSpecial projects encompass short-term, specific initiatives conducted by mlc typically outside of its main location in west oahu. These projects often involve curriculum development and field trip coordination for educational groups.
$34,412 spent4% of program spendingVarious other program include outside hawai'I - Malama Learning Center produces a monthly educational television show on oc16 that tells stories about conservation of environment and culture in hawai'I and the pacific.
$131,895 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $916,683.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $1.6M (+17%).
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 16% · 2018 15% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 11% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of MALAMA LEARNING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $105k → $160k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MALAMA LEARNING 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
MALAMA LEARNING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 MALAMA LEARNING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 97% · 2021 62% · 2022 51% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of MALAMA LEARNING CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
97% of MALAMA LEARNING CENTER's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
MALAMA LEARNING CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MALAMA LEARNING CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $558k on record.
- Department of Commerce$315k
- Department of Agriculture$88k
- Environmental Protection Agency$80k
- Department of the Interior$75k
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 MALAMA LEARNING 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MALAMA LEARNING 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 MALAMA LEARNING CENTER?
- MALAMA LEARNING CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,895,332 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($1,405,061). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MALAMA LEARNING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,895,332 in grants to MALAMA LEARNING CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MALAMA LEARNING CENTER?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $1,405,061 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MALAMA LEARNING 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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