Hawaii · Nonprofit
GROW SOME GOOD
GROW SOME GOOD (Hawaii) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,732 to it, the largest being NUESTRO FUTURO INC ($263,300). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $824k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $758k
- Net assets
- $512k
What Grow Some Good does
Mission
Grow Some Good, a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Maui, passionately promotes a local, thriving, and sustainable food system. The organization's Farm to School Program creates interactive, outdoor learning opportunities in school gardens, forging vital connections between students and their food sources while inspiring healthier nutrition choices. In addition, Grow Some Good has launched a pioneering initiative called Na Mala Kaiaulu that is designed to construct sustainable, intergenerational community food forests that offer educational opportunities, workshops, and social enterprise programs to serve underprivileged communities across Maui.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our Farm to School Garden Program currently serves 75% of the Title 1 schools in Maui County. As such, 5,000 of the 8,000 students we educate are considered financially disadvantaged, as defined by an average of 57% of them living below the poverty level. Additionally, 4,300 of those students are eligible and enrolled in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program, which supports the nutritional needs of this vulnerable population. Of those 8,000 students, roughly 23% identify as Asian, 18% as Hispanic, 16% as White, 27% as Native Hawaiian, and the remaining 16% as Other. Furthermore, the curriculum used in the project is in part place-based and addresses the traditional plants and foods of Native Hawaiians and other local ethnic groups.
$369,614 spent66% of program spendingThe Kumu Mea Kanu project is designed to reconnect and strengthen students' relationships with their land, food, and community via hybrid garden learning. By increasing student exposure to various modalities of garden learning, we strive to spark an interest in students to pursue education in agricultural fields and support local agriculture. This fiscal year, Grow Some Good distributed 3422 student garden learning kits to 123 teachers across 20 schools on Maui. These kits connect students to their food and community through an impactful project and place-based learning experience that generated 3,967 student-grown organic food plants. These plants were then donated to the community through partnerships with the Maui Family YMCA, the Maui Farm, and Hungry Heroes, which cultivated, harvested, and incorporated the produce into tens of thousands of nutritious meals for families in need.
$35,898 spent6% of program spendingGrow Some Good's Na Mala Kaiaulu Program (Community Food System Program) aims to improve food security and promote sustainable practices in Maui by creating a more equitable and sustainable food system through various activities such as youth apprenticeship programs, educational workshops, community-supported agriculture programs, and job training opportunities in sustainable agriculture and related fields, ultimately contributing to a more sustainable and resilient future for Hawaii's communities.
$151,379 spent27% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $556,891.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $146k to $431k (+195%).
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: 2018 26% · 2019 10% · 2020 23% · 2021 45% · 2022 19% · 2023 34% · 2024 19% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of GROW SOME GOOD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Scott Lacasse
Executive Director
Board chair
Rosa McAllister
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $173k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 GROW SOME GOOD’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
GROW SOME GOOD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 41% · 2021 97% · 2022 56% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of GROW SOME GOOD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of GROW SOME GOOD's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GROW SOME GOOD has grown faster than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GROW SOME GOOD
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROW SOME GOOD: 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 GROW SOME GOOD?
- GROW SOME GOOD (Hawaii) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $757,732 to it, the largest being NUESTRO FUTURO INC ($263,300). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROW SOME GOOD have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $757,732 in grants to GROW SOME GOOD, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW SOME GOOD?
- NUESTRO FUTURO INC is the largest funder on record, with $263,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW SOME GOOD 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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