Hawaii · Nonprofit
The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu
The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,864 to it, the largest being THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ($278,293). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $194k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $304k
- Net assets
- $53k
What The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu does
Mission
To hold and manage, as a public cultural reserve, land in Olowalu, Maui, to perpetuate the traditional and customary practices of Kanaka Maoli, the native people of the Hawaiian Islands, and promote opportunities to regain the spiritual connection with our ancestors through the practice of hanai'aina to ensure these beliefs and customs are passed down to future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024, Kipuka Olowalu engaged a total of 2050 volunteers in land restoration and environmental education programs. Participants included local and out-of-state schools, youth programs, corporate retreats, community members, and visitors. Activities included invasive plants removal, native species plantings, canoe crop cultivation, and stream habitat restoration work.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 $104k to $225k (+117%).
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.
100% of The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu’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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $534 → $37.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu’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
The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 94% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu
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 The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu: 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 The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu?
- The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu (Hawaii) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,864 to it, the largest being THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ($278,293). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $303,864 in grants to The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu?
- THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $278,293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve dba Kipuka Olowalu 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 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