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OLAPONO

OLAPONO (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,902 to it, the largest being Hawai'i Pacific Health Group Return ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$47k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$105k
Net assets
$49k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Olapono does

Mission

Olapono aims to build lifelong earth- and health-conscious values within children through hands-on gardening, nutrition and cooking education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Olapono authors farm to table literature related to local food, nutrition and environmental education. Books are sold or given away to community members and interested organizations to support the health and environmental education of the community.

    $11,489 spent
    24% of program spending
  2. The organization conducts online and in-person training, with instruction in cooking, gardening, nutrition and health, sustainability, farm to table, and farm to school.

    $11,489 spent
    24% of program spending
  3. Olapono provides an online resource hub/website which provides recipes, lesson plans, activities, and links to support local food, health, nutrition and environmental education, sustainability and wellness.

    $11,489 spent
    24% of program spending
  4. Olapono provides consultations to assist schools to implement farm to school programs. The organization helps to connect schools to farmers, while planning nutritious local menus, and supporting teacher training and curriculum development.

    $13,519 spent
    28% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,986.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($115k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 100 ($95k)2024 Revenue 90 ($103k) Expenses 140 ($127k) Net assets 75 ($71k)2025 Revenue 41 ($47k) Expenses 76 ($69k) Net assets 52 ($49k)
202320242025
Revenue (41)Expenses (76)Net assets (52)Peer revenue range

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 $151k to $74k (−51%).

$151k
$74k
$51k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

63% of OLAPONO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’23
−$24k
’24
−$22k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $20k.

From the IRS filings of OLAPONO’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

OLAPONO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 OLAPONO.

76%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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.

Where its funders are

100% of OLAPONO's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

HI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Hawaii out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OLAPONO's revenue fell 59% between 2023 and 2025.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−36% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OLAPONO: 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 OLAPONO?
OLAPONO (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,902 to it, the largest being Hawai'i Pacific Health Group Return ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OLAPONO have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $104,902 in grants to OLAPONO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OLAPONO?
Hawai'i Pacific Health Group Return is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OLAPONO 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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