Maui Comic Con
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831570445
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kahului, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8082985261
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,298
- Expenses
- $959
- Assets
- $2,681
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALIKA SEKI (PRESIDENT)
- KEN GARDNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALIKA SEKI (PRESIDENT)
- KEN GARDNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAMES SILVANI (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
O hold a once annual, free-to-the-public comic convention for the community of Maui to promote the appreciation of comics and comic culture.
What it reported doing in 2025
All funds collected go to pay for the event including advertising and airfare and accommodations for special guests, as well as to the support of the educational day activitiesincluding a comic-related curriculum for local area high schoolers who are bussed to the UH Maui College campus as part of our mission to foster the love and appreciation of comics and art in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 85% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.2%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 41.9%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.9%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.8; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.2% of revenue deployed · 41.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $402 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.