Hawaii · Nonprofit
MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS
MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS (Hawaii) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,023 to it, the largest being THE MAKANA ALOHA FOUNDATION ($285,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Na Hoaloha O Ka'Aina Ltdlocalportfolio match
- Maui United Wayshared funderslocal
- Charles and Mitch Ota Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 73% · 2022 31% · 2023 17% · 2024 86% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $60k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS’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
MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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 79% · 2018 81% · 2019 82% · 2020 67% · 2021 69% · 2022 50% · 2023 58% — 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
50% of MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
75% of MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Na Hoaloha O Ka'Aina Ltdlocalportfolio matchHI · funds 41 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Maui United Wayshared funderslocalHI · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 62 organizations near you
- Charles and Mitch Ota Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deline Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Henson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Performing Arts Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kosasa Foundationshared fundersHI · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Cooke Foundation Limitedshared fundersHI · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- McInerny Foundation--shared fundersHI · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- First Hawaiian Bank Foundationshared fundersHI · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- Department of Commerce$3.5M
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS?
- MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS (Hawaii) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,023 to it, the largest being THE MAKANA ALOHA FOUNDATION ($285,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $735,023 in grants to MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS?
- THE MAKANA ALOHA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing