Hawaii’s nonprofits are struggling in a perfect storm of frenetic federal funding cuts and layoffs — now exacerbated by a government shutdown — that have reduced resources, even as demand grows for the essential services many of them provide. Crucial aid to nonprofits must be expedited so that they can keep helping others; at the same time, nonprofits themselves must learn new survival strategies to keep afloat.

A new analysis by the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO) and the Hawaii Community Foundation (HCF) gives needed clarity on today’s stark situation, quantifying that 74 federal grants to 59 Hawaii nonprofits — totaling $126 million in unpaid balances — are politically vulnerable.

More than half of this risk is concentrated in health care programs, with sig

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