Hawaii · Nonprofit
MOLOKAI LAND TRUST
MOLOKAI LAND TRUST (Hawaii) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,005,413 to it, the largest being The Healy Foundation ($148,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Molokai Land Trust does
Mission
The mission of moloka`I land trust is to protect and restore the land, natural and cultural resources of moloka`I, and to promote, educate, and perpetuate the unique native hawaiian traditions and character of the island for the benefit of the future generations of moloka`I, particularly native hawaiian.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Moloka`I land trust exists to protect and restore the land, natural, and cultural resources of moloka`I and to perpetuate the unique native hawaiian traditions and character of the island.
$580,959 spent$7,330 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $580,959.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.3M to $5.0M (+18%).
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 39% · 2018 48% · 2019 16% · 2020 10% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 45% · 2024 45% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MOLOKAI LAND TRUST’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $51k → $115k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $23k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mlt Holdings Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MOLOKAI LAND TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of MOLOKAI LAND TRUST’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
MOLOKAI LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
43% 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 MOLOKAI LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 56% · 2021 50% · 2022 41% · 2023 25% — 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 MOLOKAI LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
MOLOKAI LAND TRUST draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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
MOLOKAI LAND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MOLOKAI LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $828k on record.
- Department of the Interior$828k
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 MOLOKAI LAND TRUST
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mlt Ll Inc · exempt
- Mlt Holdings Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOLOKAI LAND TRUST: 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 MOLOKAI LAND TRUST?
- MOLOKAI LAND TRUST (Hawaii) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,005,413 to it, the largest being The Healy Foundation ($148,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOLOKAI LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,005,413 in grants to MOLOKAI LAND TRUST, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOLOKAI LAND TRUST?
- The Healy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $148,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOLOKAI LAND TRUST 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 19 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