Maui Grassroot Collective Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993787623
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kahului, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8084378454
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness & Relief N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,812,335
- Expenses
- $1,880,359
- Assets
- $2,658,636
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEONA LEIOHU RYDER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA HEANEY (EXECUTIVE DI): $45,031 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Maui grassroots collectives mission is to support and uplift the care and protection of the maui community- its natural ecosystems and its people, by sponsoring projects and organizations that are committed to centering mauis most vulnerable. Through collaboration and aloha we nurture the well being of our ohana by fostering initiatives that reflect our shared values of aloha aina and malama kekahi i kekahi.
What it reported doing in 2025
Maui grassroots collective, inc. Formed in june 2024. This statement of program services represents january to december 2025. Maui grassroots collective, inc. Provided fiscal sponsorship for projects: holomua outreach, maui rapid response, maui medic healers hui, maui housing hui, and puuhonua o kuiaha. Maui rapid response (mrr) is an ahupua`a-inspired response team made up of individuals from the maui community and coordinated support from a number of non-profit and direct-aid organizations. Mrr aims to strengthen maui's network of collective care, to build-up community-led initiatives, and to care for the people of maui, as guided by the kanaka `oiwi ahupua`a system. Through the relief compass- essential goods distributionprogram, mrr operates an inventory sharing system for essential needs supplies and distributed goods weekly to 100+ families. Mrr operates neighborhood outreach to connect with community, deliver water, essential goods, and identify support needs (4 sites x 52 weekly visits = 208 outreach trips). Mrrs weekly food box distribution distributed food to 600 ohana (families) per week; over 11,000 items distributed in 2025. The direct public emergency assistance served 88 ohana on assistance, supporting 205 people with electricity bills, emergency housing, and transportation. Maui medic healers hui (mmhh) provides health services and care at their lahaina comprehensive health clinic and through their community outreach efforts. The clinic was open 5 days a week in 2025, with support from 14 health practitioners, providing 2,500 total treatments. Mmhh engaged in education, outreach, tabling events and supported the maui west studys efforts to track lahaina fire survivors long term health. Maui housing hui (mhh) supports tenants, landlords and community members navigate the housing crisis through education, advocacy, and support. Mhh offered 14 community education sessions, community outreach and networking support, and core leadership traveled to oahu for policy advocacy at the state level.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 136.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -51.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $45K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.