Hawaii · Nonprofit
PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION
PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,304,954 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($5,164,716). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $566k
What Pacific Rim Conservation does
Mission
Our mission is to maintain and restore native species and ecosystems through habitat protection and management, threat control, public education, and scientific research to develop and improve conservation methods. We provide biological research and management services to government agencies, other non-profit organizations, landowners, and a variety of other groups throughout the hawaiian islands and the pacific region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We work together with local communities, government agencies, and other conservation organizations to achieve our goals; we are a solidly 'boots on the ground organization. We do this by creating 'islands' within islands where predators have either been removed and excluded through fencing or are controlled on a long term basis. We then work to restore the habitat in these areas, and in some cases, bring bird species back that are no longer found there through translocation and social attraction. Throughout all of our work, we actively conduct research to understand avian biology, and the ecosystem changes and benefits to inform future conservation actions. To date, we have published more than 142 peer-reviewed papers in high-profile scientific journals and one full length book, and have had our work featured in media outlets such as the new york times, national geographic and the bbc.
$1,250,427 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,250,427.
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 2019 to 2020, from $330k to $687k (+108%).
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 40% · 2018 36% · 2019 8% · 2020 12% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 12% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $261k → $708k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION’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
PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 76% · 2019 47% · 2020 65% · 2021 88% · 2022 75% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
67% of PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $954k on record.
- Department of the Interior$886k
- Department of Defense$68k
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 PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION: 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 PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION?
- PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,304,954 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($5,164,716). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $7,304,954 in grants to PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,164,716 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC RIM CONSERVATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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