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Maui Economic Development Board Inc

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$662k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$6.4MEnvironment$20kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $580,220, the rows itemized in this filing. The $662,279 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,059 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $530k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEAFOAM INC$20,000
CAPTAIN JACKS LLC$20,000
TRIPLEK STONE WORKS INC$20,000
SHOP BIKINI BIRD CORP$20,000
THREE PAISANOS$20,000
JOSEPH K & COMPANY LLC$20,000
MAUI ADVENTURE CRUISES INC$20,000
SEA LINK OF HAWAII INC$20,000
B&K BUILDERS GENERAL CONTRACTING LLC$20,000
ZELM ZERO EMISSION LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE$20,000
ALOHA SUNSHINE TOURS LLC$20,000
ABSOLUTE CHARTERS INC$20,000
SEABERN YACHTS INC$20,000
HALIIMAILE PINEAPPLE COMPANY LIMITED$20,000
ZAMANI INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOGC INCORPORATED: $20k → 11%FARAZ SOLTANI AQUATIC EXPERTS LLC: $20k → 9%CLUB SPORTSWEAR INC: $20k → 10%COOL CAT CAFE LLC: $20k → 12%CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE INC: $20k → 13%REGENCY THEATRES INC: $20k → 14%TILLY TIMMS INC: $20k → 9%ALOHA SUNSHINE TOURS LLC: $20k → 9%MAUI HANDS INC: $20k → 9%PTJ LLC: $20k → 9%STARDUST HAWAII: $20k → 9%JOSEPH K & COMPANY LLC: $20k → 9%SHOP BIKINI BIRD CORP: $20k → 9%RFJO CORP: $20k → 9%UPCOUNTRY PHOTOGRAPHY INC: $20k → 9%MAUI ADVENTURE CRUISES INC: $20k → 9%THE BREAKFAST CAFFE LLC: $20k → 9%AMERITONE MAUI INC: $20k → 9%ULULANI'S HAWAIIAN SHAVE ICE LLC: $20k → 9%SKYLINE ECO-ADVENTURES LLC: $20k → 9%JEWELRY STAND MAUI INC: $20k → 9%THERAPEUTIC ASSOCIATES OF MAUI LLC: $20k → 9%VELEZ ENTERPRISES LLC: $20k → 9%ISLAND DREAM PRODUCTIONS LLC: $20k → 9%OCEANIA MAUI: $20k → 9%MAUI SUNRIDERS BIKE CO INC: $20k → 9%CHOICE LAHAINA INC: $20k → 9%TAVERN LLC: $20k → 9%TRILOGY CORPORATION: $20k → 9%HERMANSON ENTERPRISES (HAWAII) LTD: $20k → 9%SEA SPORT CRUISES INC: $20k → 9%VALLEY ISLE BUILDERS INC: $20k → 9%USA WIND SPINNERS INC: $20k → 9%KAULANA OF MAUI INC: $20k → 9%7M AND COMPANY INC: $20k → 9%WHALERS LOCKER INC: $20k → 9%HONE HEKE CORPORATION: $20k → 9%ROOTED MAUI LLC: $20k → 9%MAUI MEMORIES INC: $20k → 9%MAUI'S BEST MASSAGE LLC: $20k → 9%MAUI DIVING -SCUBA & SNORKEL CENTER: $20k → 9%JOHN D DODSON DDS INC: $20k → 9%SIERRA FOODS CORPORATION: $20k → 9%ALII DRY CLEANERS: $20k → 9%ANDREW SHOEMAKER PHOTOGRAPHY LLC: $20k → 9%ALOHAPOTTSCOM INC: $20k → 9%CAPTAIN JACKS LLC: $20k → 9%LAHAINA DENTAL GROUP LLC: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$141k · 8 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
402

Total granted

$141k
$5.8M

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $516k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    LINCOLN CONSTRUCTION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
  • KC
    KOLEA CHARTERS OF LAHAINA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
  • AM
    ALOHA MIXED PLATE LLC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k

Funded once

  • RM
    ROOTED MAUI LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • HZ
    HALE ZEN LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • AH
    ALOHA HAT COMPANY LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 440 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
0/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+199 more: $3,647,579 · Other+199 moreTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,647,579Arts & Culture$20,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Maui Pono FoundationHI35.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maui Pono Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maui Economic Development Board Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maui Economic Development Board Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 440 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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