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MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC

MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $837,321 to it, the largest being Marin Community Foundation ($389,290). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$583k
Revenue FY2025
15
Funders on record
$837k
Grants received
$475k
Net assets
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC has grown faster than half of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($370k) Expenses 100 ($389k) Net assets 100 ($424k)2022 Revenue 112 ($416k) Expenses 124 ($484k) Net assets 97 ($411k)2023 Revenue 177 ($656k) Expenses 138 ($538k) Net assets 148 ($629k)2024 Revenue 161 ($593k) Expenses 167 ($651k) Net assets 135 ($572k)2025 Revenue 158 ($583k) Expenses 175 ($679k) Net assets 112 ($475k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (158)Expenses (175)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 41% · 2022 3% · 2023 74% · 2024 19% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
21
$69k
22
$118k
23
$57k
24
$96k
25
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $61k → $45k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)47% 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 NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS 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 NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC.

46%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 50% · 2022 29% · 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.

How long its funders stay

83% of MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

63% of MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

MN
CA
MO
HI
TX

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

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Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $395k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.

Federal$300k
grants $300kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$300k

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 NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS 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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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 NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC?
MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $837,321 to it, the largest being Marin Community Foundation ($389,290). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $837,321 in grants to MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC?
Marin Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $389,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 15funders 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