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HAWAII WILDLIFE FUND

EIN 99-0326669 KEALAKEKUA, HI

Largest nonprofits in Hawaii

Revenue 2024
$632,494
Expenses 2024
$759,604

Program services were 96.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C300
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1801

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

NATIVE HAWAIIAN WILDLIFE PROTECTION, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

  • KA'U COASTAL RESTORATION -- HWF TEAM AND VOLUNTEERS WORK TO PROTECT NATIVE COASTAL AND MARINE FLORA, FAUNA, AND ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH MARINE DEBRIS RECOVERY, NATIVE PLANT CONSERVATION EFFORTS AND ESTUARY RESTORATION. MUCH OF THIS WORK TAKES PLACE WITHIN THE 1,353 ACRE FOREST RESERVE IN WAI'OHINU BUT IT HAS EXPANDED BOTH ON HAWAI'I ISLAND, AS WELL AS ON MAUI AND KAUA'I. THE PROGRAM ALSO INCLUDES ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND ESTUARY RESTORATION EFFORTS ACROSS HAWAI'I ISLAND (AND NOW VIRTUALLY WITH ONLINE CURRICULUM AVAILABLE GLOBALLY). WITH VARIOUS GOV'T, FOUNDATION GRANTS AND PRIVATE DONATIONS CONTINUING SINCE 2003, HWF HAS CONDUCTED MARINE DEBRIS RECOVERY EFFORTS ALONG THE COAST, AND INITIATED PROJECTS TO PROTECT ENDANGERED AND ENDEMIC SPECIES, NATIVE COASTAL-STRAND PLANTS AND TO RESTORE ANCHIALINE POOLS IN THIS REGION AND WETLANDS IN OTHER NEARBY AREAS.

    Expenses $430,485

  • HAWAI'I WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER -- IN COLLABORATION WITH NOAA'S HAWAIIAN ISLANDS HUMPBACK WHALE NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY, HWF DESIGNED, CURATED AND OPERATES A 5,000 SQUARE FOOT WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER IN MAUI'S ICONIC SHOPPING CENTER AT WHALERS VILLAGE. WITH INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS AND ARTIFACTS THAT FOCUS ON NATIVE MARINE LIFE, THE DISCOVERY CENTER HOUSES A DYNAMIC BLEND OF ART AND SCIENCE TO EDUCATE VISITORS AND RESIDENTS ABOUT THE ISLAND'S NATIVE MARINE LIFE.

    Expenses $149,767

  • HO'OKULEANA: HO'OKIPA HONU -- RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND GREEN SEA TURTLE PROTECTION PROJECT TO MANAGE BASKING AND NESTING GREEN TURTLES AT HO'OKIPA, MAUI AND EVALUATE THE IMPORTANCE OF IN-WATER HABITAT. THROUGH ITS HONU WATCH PROGRAM, HWF MONITORS BASKING HONU (TURTLES) AND EDUCATES THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE PHENOMENON CALLED "BASKING," A RARE BEHAVIOR IN WHICH GREEN SEA TURTLES CRAWL ASHORE FOR REASONS OTHER THAN NESTING. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE A DAY COME TO WITNESS THIS BEHAVIOR AND HWF PROVIDES PROTECTION FOR THE TURTLES. NESTING AND HATCHING EVENTS ARE ALSO MONITORED CLOSELY TO ENSURE SURVIVABILITY OF NESTERS AND HATCHLINGS.

    Expenses $62,341

  • Expenses $89,446 · Grants $1,920

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Donna Kahi Kahakui

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Nadine Kehaulani Robertson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Maura B Naughton

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Melita Nasiah Charan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Maria Taylor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Megan Lamson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $46,278
    From this org
    $41,050
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,228
    Hours/week
    25

  • Hannah Bernard

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $71,294
    From this org
    $64,320
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,974
    Hours/week
    40

  • Chris Reid

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $632,494
    Expenses
    $759,604
    Contributions
    $552,702
    Grants paid
    $1,920
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $663,033
    Expenses
    $634,834
    Contributions
    $604,444
    Grants paid
    $12,787
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $513,568
    Expenses
    $601,103
    Contributions
    $422,973
    Grants paid
    $55,668

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $647,236
    Expenses
    $445,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $400,332

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $647,236
    Expenses
    $445,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $400,332

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $293,001
    Expenses
    $263,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,940

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,997
    Expenses
    $359,302
    Assets (EOY)
    $169,956

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $406,624
    Expenses
    $406,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $200,904

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.