Maui Hub Attn Autumn Ness
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851716918
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kula, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8082761366
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,528,547
- Expenses
- $1,384,371
- Assets
- $658,890
- Liabilities
- $74,303
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AUTUMN NESS (President)
People named in this filing
- ANN HEMMSLEY (Secretary)
- EMILY KUNZ (Treasurer)
- AUTUMN NESS (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Form 990 - organizations' missionour mission is to support local food supply lines, build community resilience and play a leading role toward a renaissance of the local food economy by providing a distribution pathway from local farmers and food producers, direct to the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
The maui hub is a nonprofit, community-based, organziation whose primary mission is to provide local fresh afordable produce to maui low income residents, food banks, and community kitchens. This is accomplished through an online-based food distribution sytem which connects local farmers and producers to consumers.consumers place orders through the online platform. The platform then generates purchase orders for farmers, who harvest produce and make deliviries to a centralized distribution center. Orders are then picked and packed, placed in refriigerated trucks, and driven to pick-up locations for customers.maui hub will set up an ebt point of sale account to process snap benefits enabling low-income families to purchase produce. Maui hub's focus is to register and serve as many snap eligible customers as possible. Maui hub also provides produce to the maui food bank.unlike traditional retailers, maui hub's aim is not to maixmize profit but rather provide as much food assistance to the community as possible. Accordingly maui hub's business model -- including the produce carried, geographic locations of pick-up areas, and pricing of goods -- is geared toward these charitable goals. Maui hub generally offers produce at lwoer prices that other retail establishments while providing farmers and food producers fair pricing for their goods.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.