Hawaii · Nonprofit
PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM
PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Pahoa Lava Zone Museum does
Mission
It is the mission of Pahoa Lava Zone Museum to provide public, historic,scientific, and educational information to tourists and residents regardingthe geology and impacts of hawaii island's volcanic events for the benefitof the pahoa community and to promote responsible tourism in the punadistrict. It is also the mission of plzm to help facilitate a safe, strong,sustainable community and economy in puna and on the big island ofhawaii.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Malama homestead , puamana and kapoho crater- kilauea eruption recovery community work. Using kilauea recovery funds to reeastablish roads inundated by 2018 eruption
$52,600 spent30% of program spendingCounty of hawaii planning deaprtments funds used to launch camera program to improve security in pahoa twon
$28,304 spent16% of program spendingThe organization operates the phoa lava zone museum, a volunteer-run educational center providing exhibits and public education on volcanic activity, geological history, and the 2018 lower east rift zone eruption. The museum maintains interpretive displays, artifacts, photographs, and community narratives that help visitors understand the environmental and cultural significance of living in a lava zone. Through regular open hours, guided interpretation, and outreach to local residents and visitors, the museum promotes hazard awareness, supports community resilience, and preserves the region's geological and cultural heritage.
$33,864 spent19% of program spendingVarious community capacity building and interaction projects.
$61,813 spent35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $176,581.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $184k to $323k (+75%).
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.
92% of PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
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
PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM: 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 PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM?
- PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,000 in grants to PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM?
- COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAHOA LAVA ZONE MUSEUM 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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