Hawaii · Nonprofit
PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC
PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,014,755 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($6,256,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $391k
What Papahanaumokuakea Marine Debris Project Inc does
Mission
Papahanaumokuakea Marine Debris Project, Inc. has been organized for the purpose of marine life conservation. More specifically, the organization will conduct large cleanup missions for marine life conservation at Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii. In doing so, the organization will ensure the accumulation of plastic, fishing nets, and other debris are cleaned up so that marine life in conservation area can continue and thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization will conduct large cleanup missions for marine life conservation at Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii
$2,488,335 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,488,335.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $27k to $230k (+768%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $3.3M.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT 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
PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 57% · 2022 87% · 2023 98% — 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
25% of PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 47% 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
PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $298k 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
PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $255k on record.
- Department of Commerce$152k
- Department of the Interior$103k
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 PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT 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 PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC?
- PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,014,755 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($6,256,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $7,014,755 in grants to PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,256,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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