Hawaii · Nonprofit
Grants Central Station
Grants Central Station (Hawaii) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,423,743 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($525,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $995k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $407k
What Grants Central Station does
Mission
Providing support to the community of Maui county by providing support to projects needed in the community. In 2024 our focus was mainly for the people affected by fires on August 8th 2023.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Received a large amount of donations to help those affected by the Lahaina fires on August 8th 2024
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Maui Rapid Reponse, a community-based response team, played a pivotal role in aiding those affected by the Maui wildfires. The organization coodinated volunteer efforts, managed donation drop-off sites & provided essential resources such as shelters, food & supplies to impacted residents.
$3,176,142 spent$349,993 earned by the program72% of program spendingMaui Medic Healers Hui is a Kanaka Maoli led team providing multi- disciplinary care, including traditional Native Hawaiian healing practices as well as Western & Eastern medicine, to support the affect communities.
$326,958 spent$41,639 earned by the program7% of program spendingRoots Reborn Maui emerged as a vital support organization for immigrant & migrant communities affected by the Maui wildfires.
$573,678 spent$304,034 earned by the program13% of program spendingGrants Central Station provides fiscal sponsorships for groups want to providing aid to individuals in Maui County affected by hunger, fire, flood, and homelessness.
$348,048 spent$299,204 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,424,826.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $35k to $3.8M (+10884%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Grants Central Station’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
14 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Grants Central Station’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
Grants Central Station has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
93% 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 Grants Central Station.
“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
52% of Grants Central Station'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. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 10 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
Grants Central Station has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Grants Central Station
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Grants Central Station: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Grants Central Station?
- Grants Central Station (Hawaii) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,423,743 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($525,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Grants Central Station have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,423,743 in grants to Grants Central Station, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grants Central Station?
- Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grants Central Station 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.
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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 38 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