Hawaii · Nonprofit
MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC
MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $676,778 to it, the largest being HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU ($116,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $715k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $677k
- Net assets
- $898k
What Moanalua Gardens Foundation Inc does
Mission
To preserve the native culture and environment of hawaii through education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Prince lot hula festival - the largest non-competitive hula exhibition, craft fair, cultural demonstrations, concerts and more. The annual event has been running for 46 years, the event returned to a live festival with a virtual component with over 225,000 people viewing a two-hour televised festival.
$243,109 spent$16,870 earned by the program39% of program spendingHuaka'I o kamananui, aina base environmental education program - the only placed-based program focused on kamananui valley continued moanalua gardens foundation's new malama kamananui environmental education program and trained approximately 700 students in the outdoor classroom of kamananui valley. Malama kamananui stewardship program continues with a management plan to protect, preserve, maintain and manage kamananui valley for future generations. The first phase is completed with botanical and cultural surveys. The second phase in compilation and confirmation with the state department of forestry.
$374,372 spent61% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $617,481.
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 2017 to 2018, from $791k to $987k (+25%).
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 80% · 2018 95% · 2019 54% · 2020 52% · 2021 32% · 2022 45% · 2023 47% · 2024 51% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Ian Keali'I Custino
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $250 → $162k.
1 of 20 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 MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC’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
MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
39% 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 MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 57% · 2020 67% · 2021 59% · 2022 24% · 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.
How long its funders stay
63% of MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
93% of MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $628k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$328k
- Department of the Interior$150k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$150k
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 MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC?
- MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $676,778 to it, the largest being HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU ($116,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $676,778 in grants to MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC?
- HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU is the largest funder on record, with $116,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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