Hawaii · Nonprofit
SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI
SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI (Hawaii) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,734,665 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($375,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Sustainable Molokai does
Mission
Sustainable Molokai is a community development organization committed to restoring aina momona (thriving people and abundant land) to molokai by uniting traditional practices with responsible, modern sustainable solutions. Current programs focus on strengthening food security and sovereignty, energy resilience, and environmental and natural resource conservation on molokai.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Food sovereignty program include the mobile market, eggs to market, poultry egg education project, food bank and pantry, farm training and outreach, kaukau for keiki, farm business support, and other projects.
$1,335,843 spent$1,763 earned by the program65% of program spendingFood hub & stustainability center - umeke ai o molokai. Umeke ai o molokai aims to be a community and resiliency center on the island of molokai. This facility would be permanent food hub and food bank, working with other agencies on insland, to serve the entire molokai community and become the headquarters for Sustainable Molokai.
$394,097 spent$293,702 earned by the program19% of program spendingEnvironmental and natural resources program includes molokai climate change and sea level adaptation and resiliency plan, molokai gorilla oro limu hui,and the land back initiative - molokai heritage trust.
$181,163 spent9% of program spendingThe other programs includes the renewable energy programs and other misscelaneous projects. The renewable energy program includes the molokai clean energy hui, molokai community energy resilience action plan, and hui up energy efficient appliance exhange.
$134,069 spent$10,089 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,045,172.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $2.4M (+72%).
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 57% · 2018 30% · 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 47% · 2022 61% · 2023 58% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $15k → $343k.
4 of 29 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 SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI’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
SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 37% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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
14% of SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M
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 SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI: 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 SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI?
- SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI (Hawaii) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,734,665 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($375,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,734,665 in grants to SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI 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 29 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