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FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY

FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,221 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$376k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$523k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Friends of the Maui County Library does

Mission

To support public libraries in Maui County through the purchase of library equipment and supplies, books and periodicals and sponsoring educational and cultural programs for the community. To provide scholarships for Library Science students and grants for librarian education and related travel.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. 110 volunteers operate three used book stores to sell donated books and library discards with additional sales at each branch library allocated to that branch. Each branch submits list of needed items: furniture, fixtures, equipment, materials, program funding to organizations volunteer library liaison. Major funding in 2024: Equipment and supplies: $23,751; programs and events, $31,927; periodicals for all eight branches: $7,260; materials: $51,114; staff and volunteer support: $1,172; scholarships: $33,000.

    $199,059 spentof which $88,182 as grants$337,009 earned by the program
    50% of program spending
  2. Three all volunteer used bookstores sell donated books and library discards to the public in 1) donated space and 2)two retail sites, rented at lessor cost. Nominal prices make books affordble; free books are distributed to children, librarians and educators at one store daily and at special events. Volunteer recruitment, staffing and retention for 110 volunteers and pickup, receipt and processing of donations and warehouse are major administrative functions to support the retail stores. Continuous recruitment for volunteers at senior centers, newspapers, the internet site.

    $200,076 spentof which $74,824 as grants
    50% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $399,135.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($289k) Expenses 100 ($236k) Net assets 100 ($178k)2018 Revenue 104 ($302k) Expenses 112 ($265k) Net assets 121 ($215k)2019 Revenue 108 ($311k) Expenses 116 ($274k) Net assets 142 ($252k)2020 Revenue 77 ($224k) Expenses 85 ($199k) Net assets 155 ($276k)2021 Revenue 105 ($305k) Expenses 95 ($224k) Net assets 202 ($359k)2022 Revenue 127 ($367k) Expenses 95 ($225k) Net assets 282 ($502k)2023 Revenue 135 ($390k) Expenses 138 ($324k) Net assets 319 ($567k)2024 Revenue 130 ($376k) Expenses 178 ($420k) Net assets 294 ($523k)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (178)Net assets (294)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $359k to $502k (+40%).

$178k
$215k
$252k
$276k
$359k
$502k
$567k
$523k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$54k
’17
$37k
’18
$37k
’19
$25k
’20
$80k
’21
$143k
’22
$66k
’23
−$43k
’24
14
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed1415161414131817
Joined·+2+1+1+0+1+6+0
No longer listed·1030211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $277 → $270.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY’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

FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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 FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY?
FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY (Hawaii) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,221 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,221 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE MAUI COUNTY LIBRARY 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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