Hawaii · Nonprofit
OLOHANA INC
OLOHANA INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $413k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $540k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Olohana Inc does
Mission
Olohanas mission is to work with communities to co-develop strategies for resilience and adaptation to climate change. Our projects and programs intersect food, energy, water, and knowledge systems and facilitate and support strengthened relationships between the generations, between cultures, and with the natural environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rising voices changing coasts: the national indigenous and earth sciences convergence hub (rvcc). Olohana is a sub-awardee of the rising voices changing coasts: the national indigenous and earth sciences convergence hub. The sub-award focuses on community technological and communications infrastructure to support rvcc research for dissemination and future research collaborations.
$348,155 spent87% of program spendingTropical fruit puree products for local market. Our pilot project, hawai'I tropical fruits: adding value for shared abundance focuses on prototyping two minimally processed tropical fruit puree products using locally grown, soft-skin fruit (primarily guava) that might otherwise go to waste. The project promotes food self-sufficiency on the big island and increased market access and economic opportunity for local fruit growers.
$45,049 spent$1,563 earned by the program11% of program spendingMaui wildfire recovery with our partners at the national center for atmospheric research (ncar), we installed air quality monitoring devices which the local community will use to gather local air quality data. Farm education our farm education campus is being developed for demonstrative operational training for young farmers on the hamakua coast. The focus is on soil science, atmospheric and meteorological impacts on farming, and a more holistic approach to animal husbandry. Giants of the land & sea leading the way global tour in collaboration with our partners, this global tour of the giant carving of a humpback whale, mother kohola, by artist tonu shane eagleton will launch out of hawaii in 2025. The tour will open partnership opportunities for economic conservation and preservation activities and symbolizes our need to heal our oceans and planet.
$5,660 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $398,864.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $24k to $115k (+378%).
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: 2023 93% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of OLOHANA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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 held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 OLOHANA 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
OLOHANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 OLOHANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 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
93% of OLOHANA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k 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
OLOHANA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding OLOHANA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $101k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$101k
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 OLOHANA 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
90% 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 OLOHANA INC: 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 OLOHANA INC?
- OLOHANA INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OLOHANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $540,000 in grants to OLOHANA INC.
- Who is the largest funder of OLOHANA INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLOHANA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 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