Hawaii · Nonprofit
MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,002,964 to it, the largest being BOTTON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Maui Economic Opportunity Inc does
Mission
Maui economic opportunity, inc (meo) is a private, non-profit community action agency, chartered on march 22, 1965 by federal mandate under provisions of the economic opportunity act of 1964. The agency provides a comprehensive scope of services to those in need throughout maui county and across the state of hawaii. The mission of meo is to strengthen the community while helping people in need restore their hope, reach their potential and enrich their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transportation services program: provide transportation to eliminate barriers and promote self-sufficiency. Increase the availability and affordability of opportunities for low-income, persons with special needs, seniors and youth through social services transportation. Approximately 6,362 passengers in the target population (seniors, persons with disabilities, low income individuals, children and youth) took trips to and from nutrition sites, senior programs, day health, dialysis, and after school programs and activities. The number of passengers' boarding including ada paratransit service totaled approximately 272,111.
$11,438,492 spentof which $24,241 as grants$366 earned by the program33% of program spendingCrisis and emergency assistance - provide housing, utility, vehicle, appliance, clothing and school supply support for families with dependent children impacted by the wildfires. Federally funded through the state department of human services.
$8,506,014 spentof which $7,680,691 as grants$461,057 earned by the program25% of program spendingEmployment and training - enhance employment application and job skills for low-income and legal permanent residents. The goal is to help clients find jobs earning a living wage.
$6,166,043 spentof which $1,424 as grants18% of program spendingMeo business development center (meo bdc) offers business planning classes and consultation, financial literacy, and microloans for small business startup operations or expansion, and agricultural micro grants for local operating farms on maui, molokai and lanai to increase the farm's capacity, productivity, name recognition and income. 75 farms received micro grant assistance during the fifth year of the funding.the meo bdc business planning or core four course assisted 114 businesses in the development of a realistic, achievable business plan. The five-week program is offered throughout the year on maui, molokai, and lanai. 1,204 youth to adult attended financial literacy classes that focused on increasing financial health, including saving, budgeting, lending and investment information.early childhood services includes the federally funded meo head start preschool program that provided comprehensive services to income eligible families and promotes school readiness for children ages three to five years old. Comprehensive services are provided to enrolled children and their families, which include health, nutrition, social, and other services determined to be necessary by the…
$8,172,124 spentof which $2,321,721 as grants$279,837 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,282,673.
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 2023 to 2024, from $30M to $50M (+64%).
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 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 82% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Debra Cabebe
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $50k → $211k.
4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 26 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
MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% 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 MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 80% · 2022 51% · 2023 47% — 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
57% of MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC'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
MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k 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
MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$26.5M
- Department of Labor$2.1M
- Department of Education$105k
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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: 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 MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC?
- MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,002,964 to it, the largest being BOTTON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,002,964 in grants to MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC?
- BOTTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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