Hawaii · Nonprofit
OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT
OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $916,855 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS ($316,534). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $917k
- Net assets
- $510k
What Oahu Resource Conservation & Development does
Mission
To promote activities which conserve and sustain our natural, human, cultural and economic resources
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land stewardship: support the planning, implementation and evaluationof sustainable agricultural practices
$949,321 spentof which $102,065 as grants$33,515 earned by the program72% of program spendingThriving farms: provide grant writing services for farms, ranches and food system practitioners.
$241,322 spent$9,523 earned by the program18% of program spendingPolicy and partnerships: coordinate state-wide networks of agricultural service providers, funders and others to improve service delivery for farms, ranches and food system practitioners.
$58,246 spent$11,848 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$60,546 spent$2,003 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,309,435.
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 $457k to $1.2M (+163%).
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 52% · 2018 48% · 2019 58% · 2020 70% · 2021 74% · 2022 60% · 2023 86% · 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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.
Chief executive
Dave Elliot
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $33.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT’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
OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 72% · 2022 53% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
20% of OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $338k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2.5M
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 OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT?
- OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $916,855 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS ($316,534). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $916,855 in grants to OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS is the largest funder on record, with $316,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT 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.
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 10 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