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Maui Media Initiative Inc

Maui Media Initiative Inc (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,983 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,150). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$169k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$310k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Maui Media Initiative Inc does

Mission

To inform, educate, and entertain Maui

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To inform, educate, and entertain the Maui community with a non-commercial FM radio station.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($107k)2018 Revenue 149 ($114k) Expenses 212 ($91k) Net assets 122 ($131k)2019 Revenue 135 ($104k) Expenses 181 ($78k) Net assets 146 ($157k)2020 Revenue 133 ($102k) Expenses 191 ($82k) Net assets 165 ($177k)2021 Revenue 146 ($112k) Expenses 207 ($89k) Net assets 187 ($201k)2022 Revenue 231 ($178k) Expenses 283 ($121k) Net assets 240 ($258k)2023 Revenue 312 ($240k) Expenses 519 ($222k) Net assets 256 ($275k)2024 Revenue 225 ($173k) Expenses 341 ($146k) Net assets 281 ($302k)2025 Revenue 220 ($169k) Expenses 375 ($161k) Net assets 289 ($310k)
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Revenue (220)Expenses (375)Net assets (289)Peer revenue range

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 $201k to $258k (+28%).

$107k
$131k
$157k
$177k
$201k
$258k
$275k
$303k
$312k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of Maui Media Initiative Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$23k
’18
$26k
’19
$20k
’20
$24k
’21
$57k
’22
$17k
’23
$27k
’24
$8k
’25
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months of
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.

20232025
Listed54
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $2k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Media Initiative Inc’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 Media Initiative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76% 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 Media Initiative Inc.

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 76% · 2021 64% · 2022 78% · 2023 64% — 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.

Where its funders are

76% of Maui Media Initiative 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Hawaii funders.

HI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Maui Media Initiative Inc has grown faster than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Maui Media Initiative 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

HI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maui Media Initiative 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 Media Initiative Inc?
Maui Media Initiative Inc (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,983 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,150). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Maui Media Initiative Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,983 in grants to Maui Media Initiative Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Maui Media Initiative Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $16,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Maui Media Initiative 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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