Hawaii · Nonprofit
Na Maka Onaona
Na Maka Onaona (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,058,547 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($1,874,180). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $387k
What Na Maka Onaona does
Mission
To cultivate and support Aina Momona, thriving communities of people and place. To provide culturally grounded educational programs and partnerships that support the over all health of our communities; mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically. Our vision is Aina Momona: A productive and thriving Hawaii.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Other programs
$1,098,810 spent$865,648 earned by the program76% of program spendingHuli'ia (watershed research (pacc, huli'ia, stream hybrid)) is an initiative that directly addresses scientific inquiry and watershed research. Over the past 18 yearsof research experience, our team has created a variety of tools that are focused on contributing to the restoration and management of our natural ecosystems, specifically addressing island watersheds and productive systems. Our pacc tool addresses intertidal fisheries, specifically the opihi/limpet fishery, and is currently developing an opihi fishery management plan to support state rules and regulations. Our huli'ia tool supports geographic communities in documenting and understanding seasonal cycles to identify trends and indicators that can advise management initiatives, restoration work, and social behavioral shifts. Our stream hybrid tool provides a monitoring tool for communities and agencies to assess the biological community in river/stream systems. Collectively we work with multiple organizations and agencies training and conducting workshops servicing approximately 18 geographic watershed communities. Funds are sourced through local land managers, curators, and estates/foundations who want to increase their…
$301,575 spent$280,457 earned by the program21% of program spendingOcean Literacy / Waa as our classroom: Na Maka Onaona has extended our Huliia/Literacy component to focus on Ocean Literacy utilizing waa or canoes as our floating classroom. Waa maintenance and operation is a huge part of this program training crew to care for and operate a sailing canoe being safe and moving together. In collaboration with partnerships across the State of Hawaii, weve also supported Wa'a Kaulua Pae Kula, a program inspired by Hoakea: Mauka to Makai Navigating our Future which began as an outdoor learning lab to showcase aina and waa as powerful learning platforms in 2023-2024 in Windward and Leeward, Oahu. It has expanded to include professional learning opportunities for teachers and student programming during non-traditional school hours and to other districts in the state. Through hands-on learning stations, we aim to inspire students to embrace the Navigator Mindset and become the leaders, stewards, and critical thinkers who can navigate us into a better future. Each year, we visit every school on the island of Kauai, reaching almost every school-age child. In the past calendar year we have made 22 school visits reaching an approximate 9,000 students.
$35,490 spent$69,600 earned by the program2% of program spendingNa kilo "aina (building communities of conscious people of place to support "aina momona:productive and thriving communities) is an initiative whose ultimate goal is aina momona: abundant and thriving communities through developing and strengthening communities of conscious people of place. Na kilo aina focuses on a collective journey of health based on the natural and social environment and the co-dependent relationship needed for both to thrive. Through consciously including the healing journey of an individual person, family, and community, we support our people in recognizing their purpose and role within the broader community and the necessary collective contribution and investment to ecosystem health and abundance. We work with partners across the state of hawaii providing education and outreach opportunities to community and education groups, professional trainings and support to government and community organizations, as well as building capacity within our local communities working towards aina momona. In 2021 we have logged over 258 engagement days, 1300 engagement hours, and over 5,000 volunteer hours. Funding sources and partnerships are mostly hawaii based…
$998 spent$5,565 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,436,873.
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 2021 to 2022, from $155k to $871k (+460%).
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.
100% of Na Maka Onaona’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $429k.
From the IRS filings of Na Maka Onaona’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
Na Maka Onaona leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Na Maka Onaona.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 87% · 2023 92% — 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
96% of Na Maka Onaona's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Na Maka Onaona has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Na Maka Onaona receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1000k on record.
- Department of the Interior$1000k
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 Na Maka Onaona
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Na Maka Onaona: 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 Na Maka Onaona?
- Na Maka Onaona (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,058,547 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($1,874,180). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Na Maka Onaona have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,058,547 in grants to Na Maka Onaona, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Na Maka Onaona?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $1,874,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Na Maka Onaona 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing