Hawaii · Nonprofit
MALAMA MAUNALUA
MALAMA MAUNALUA (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,067,243 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($996,216). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Malama Maunalua does
Mission
To conserve & restore maunalua bay by informing, engaging, & empowering the community & by forming strong partnerships with government & non-government organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ho'o nui I'a (community initiative, science & planning) - restoration of marine resources to the bay. Activities included facilitating community meetings with area fishermen to begin development of a community-driven management plan for the bay & installation of informational & enforcement signage at key beach access right of ways in the region
$1,433,135 spent74% of program spendingHuki (removing invasive & alien algae) - habitat restoration effort to remove invasive mudweed, algae, & seaweed from the bay which is transformed into productive soil enrichment by area farmers. Activities included recruiting community volunteers from neighborhoods, schools & area businesses to expand the area cleared, monitoring & maintaining cleared areas & developing partnerships with government agencies also working to restore the bay.
$165,124 spent9% of program spendingMalama Maunalua is undertaking terrestrial watershed mitigation to reduce the volume of stormwater runoff and pollution contained therin from reaching maunalua bay
$331,793 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,930,052.
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 $1.1M to $2.0M (+80%).
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 22% · 2018 31% · 2019 59% · 2020 63% · 2021 43% · 2022 62% · 2023 70% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MALAMA MAUNALUA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $30k → $465k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 MAUNALUA’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 MAUNALUA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 MAUNALUA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 58% · 2019 39% · 2020 34% · 2021 31% · 2022 66% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of MALAMA MAUNALUA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
MALAMA MAUNALUA draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $490k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 MAUNALUA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MALAMA MAUNALUA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.4M on record.
- Department of Commerce$8.2M
- Department of the Interior$191k
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 MAUNALUA
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
85% 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 MALAMA MAUNALUA: 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 MAUNALUA?
- MALAMA MAUNALUA (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,067,243 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($996,216). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MALAMA MAUNALUA have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,067,243 in grants to MALAMA MAUNALUA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MALAMA MAUNALUA?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $996,216 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MALAMA MAUNALUA 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