Kilauea Recovery Grant Program Approved 18 Grants $3.7M

The Hawai‘i County Council adopted Ordinance 2020-028 on April 8, 2020, to allow community nonprofit organizations to access recovery funds. Grants must serve disaster relief, recovery, mitigation or remediation assistance for physical damages or losses suffered by the 2018 Kīlauea eruption.

Grants totaling $3.7 million have been approved. The program is supported by recovery funds provided by the State. Nonprofits can receive up to $500,000 to support projects.

The application deadline was July 24, 2020.

Grants Approved

Big Island Resource Conservation and Development Council – $500,000 to support infrastructure development for displaced orchid growers.
Habitat for Humanity – $500,000 to build five affordable homes for families who lost their homes during the eruption.
Hooulu-Lahui – $500,000 to assist Kua O Ka Lā Public Charter School with bringing its leased property into code compliance.
Malama O Puna – $375,000 for road repairs in Leilani Estates.
Food Security Hawaii – $350,000 to assist farm damaged by the eruption.
Fellowship for Perpetual Growth – $280,000 to assist farming cooperative damaged by the eruption.
Grassroots Church – $275,000 to support job creation, sustainable agriculture and community engagement for the Kuleana Project in Pahoa.
Hawaii Rise Foundation – $250,000 for Kapoho Vacationland project planning.
Pahoa Lava Museum – $175,124 to restore road access to 16 properties isolated by lava in Malama Homesteads.
O Maku‘u Ke Kahua Community Center – $154,000 to assist Hawaiian families move from subsistence to commercial farming, strengthen farmer’s market, and address safety and security issues.
Ono Seeds – $120,000 to assist a farm damaged by the eruption.
Kapono Red Road – $104,500 to support historical preservation, stewardship and land conservation.
Self Discovery through Art – $40,750 to support a recovery, resilience, re-creation facilitator training program.
Yeshua Outreach Center – $25,000 to build capacity as a viable Red Cross shelter.
Pahoa Lava Museum – $23,584 to open Puamana Road.
Pahoa Lava Museum – $22,000 to restore road access to Kapoho Crater.
Polestar Gardens – $7,500 to restore greenhouse, water and irrigation systems for a farm.
Church of the Holy Apostles – $5,000 for repairs of water lines damaged by earthquakes.