Hawaii · Nonprofit
MAUI FOOD BANK INC
MAUI FOOD BANK INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 579 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,889,444 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,251,301). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 579
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $67M
What Maui Food Bank Inc does
Mission
The mission of the maui food bank is to help the hungry in maui county by collecting and distributing food through community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The maui food bank is the only non-profit agency in maui county that collects, warehouses and distributes mass quantities of both perishable and non-perishable food. The maui food bank coordinates service delivery of donated food to needy individuals and families through a network of over 170 agencies that are members of the food bank in maui county, including agencies on the islands of lanai and molokai. The maui food bank provides a charitable safety net that thousands of low-income maui county residents rely on to make it through each month.maui food bank's aloha backpack buddies program provides a backpack filled with six meals. Needy students receive this backpack on fridays to take home. Currently there are 34 schools participating in this program.in an effort to address community food access needs, including those resulting from the 2023 wildfires, we expanded our program services in several key ways.we launched da market lahaina, a market-style program designed to provide consistent and dignified access to food and essential items for individuals and families impacted by the wildfires. Created as a welcoming, client-choice environment, the program allows residents to…
$19,591,804 spentof which $40,216 as grants$18,883 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,591,804.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $66M (+493%).
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 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 5% · 2021 19% · 2022 6% · 2023 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of MAUI FOOD BANK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Lisa Paulson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Marsha Fahir
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 441 funders, grant income rose $190k → $14M.
78 of 579 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 FOOD BANK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 579 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 FOOD BANK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
75% 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 FOOD BANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 35% · 2019 19% · 2020 10% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 12% — 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
58% of MAUI FOOD BANK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% 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
66% of MAUI FOOD BANK INC'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 $13M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 45 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 30 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 FOOD BANK INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MAUI FOOD BANK 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 FOOD BANK 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 FOOD BANK INC?
- MAUI FOOD BANK INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 579 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,889,444 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,251,301). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAUI FOOD BANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 579 organizations giving $36,889,444 in grants to MAUI FOOD BANK INC, 161 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAUI FOOD BANK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,251,301 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAUI FOOD BANK 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.
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 579 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing