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MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC

MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,777 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($389,290). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$583k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$854k
Net assets
$475k
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Maui Nui Botanical Gardens Inc does

Mission

Foster an appreciation and understanding of the living hawaiian islands emphasizing plants native to maui.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maui nui botanical gardens hosted 35 educational workshops and events; donated 3,391 native plants to maui residents, schools, and nonprofit organizations; and hosted 1,807 local students in 62 educational field trips.

    $589,110 spent$88,577 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $589,110.

02The 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

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $411k to $629k (+53%).

$479k
$411k
$629k
$572k
$476k
20212022202320242025
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.

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 · 4,629 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

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.

20212022202320242025
Listed99988
Joined·+0+1+0+1
No longer listed·0111
03Who 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 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

48% 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
89%
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; 56% 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

64% of MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

MN
CA
MO
DE
HI
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC has grown faster than half of the 2,433 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· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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

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

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05Profile & 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 policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited 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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC?
MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,777 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 16 organizations giving $853,777 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.

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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 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