Hawaii · Nonprofit
MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE
MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE (Hawaii) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,157 to it, the largest being AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION ($199,281). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Maui United Wayshared funders
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundationportfolio match
- Bonnell Cove Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 3% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $83.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE’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 OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 64% · 2020 70% · 2021 49% · 2022 38% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
67% of MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
68% of MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE'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 $111k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Maui United Wayshared fundersHI · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonnell Cove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Red Cabin Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bendon Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kaanapali Ocean Resort Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AES Hawaii Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sea Turtle Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $998k on record.
- Department of Commerce$998k
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 OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE: 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.
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 OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE?
- MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE (Hawaii) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,157 to it, the largest being AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION ($199,281). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $349,157 in grants to MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE?
- AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $199,281 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAUI OCEAN CENTER MARINE INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14funders 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