APPLICANT RESOURCES

FUNDING FOCUS AREAS

The Maui Recovery Funders Collaborative focuses on the following funding areas:

  • Housing or Housing Adjacent, including Essential Services

  • Behavioral Health

  • Economic Development

  • Systems Change or Advocacy

  • Cultural Preservation and/or Community Resilience

  • Access to Healthcare

  • Youth Support and Engagement

  • Education

Types of Requests

Most of the Collaborative’s Funding Partners are able to consider all standard request types, including programmatic requests, capital, capacity building, and general operating. While requests for general operating support are welcome, however, requests for specific elements of disaster recovery (via program, capacity or capital requests) are generally viewed more favorably. 

The Collaborative’s Funding Partners are unable to fund endowments and debt reduction, and are unable to make direct grants to individuals.

Timeline

    1. Grantseeker completes the application and uploads it to MRFC’s portal along with required attachments.

    2. MRFC’s administrator completes an initial assessment of incoming applications, ensuring each request is complete and eligible.

    3. Within two business days of submission, email confirmation is sent along with any preliminary questions.

    1. MRFC’s Funding Partners individually review applications and assess alignment with their own additional eligibility requirements and specific funding priorities.

    2. After individual review, the Collaborative convenes to discuss requests, share insights and assessments, leverage the preliminary support of others, and identify any additional questions or needs from applicants.

    1. MRFC’s administrator or individual foundations, if desired, contact applicants as necessary to gather additional information to inform decision-making.

    2. MRFC’s administrator may provide supplemental technical assistance to support equitable, complete and competitive applications, or to support a prerequisite from an interested funder (e.g. developing a policy, formatting financials, identifying metrics) before a decision is made.

    1. Preliminary pledges or early grant decisions may be made during a Collaborative Review or at any time throughout the lifecycle

    2. As funding decisions are made that are not dependent on peer matches, MRFC’s administrator alerts applicants and connects them to funders to complete the final award agreements or, in some cases, supports them in providing supplementary application materials specific to an individual funder.

    3. Within 10 weeks of initial submission, MRFC’s administrator will contact all applicants regardless of funding commitments to date, to let them know if any additional decisions are likely to be forthcoming, and a timeline for those decisions. A majority of funding decisions are made within this ten week “Preliminary Pledge” timeframe.

    4. At 14 weeks from initial submission, applicants are contacted with Close Out instructions. Applicants have an opportunity to update their application and, although they will be removed from the active review process, their request will remain searchable and viewable by any new Funding Partner who joins at a later date. Their application will remain available in this manner for about nine to ten more months, or about one year in total. Unfunded applicants are asked to keep the Fund Administrator apprised of any major changes in status or request amount.

    5. Applicants with full or partial awards will continue to work directly with grantmakers to process grant agreements and receive payments. A consolidated, streamlined final report process is used to meet the requirements of most Funding Partners.

How to Apply

1. Determine your organization’s eligibility here by reviewing the Collaborative’s funding priorities, goals and principles. Contact the Fund’s administrator with any questions.

2. Complete the Maui Recovery Funders  Collaborative Application Form

3. Upload your completed application and required financial statements via the Collaborative’s portal, which also asks a few additional questions and provides an opportunity to upload additional materials.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • A variety of philanthropic and corporate grantmakers participate in the Collaborative. Learn more about the Maui Recovery Funders Collaborative members here

  • All of the Collaborative’s Funding Partners  are able to fund 501(c)(3) organizations;  organizations fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3); and 509(a)(1) organizations. 

    A few are also able to fund jurisdictions, municipal governments or public entities, religious organizations, and for-profit businesses with charitable purposes.

  • The Collaborative’s Funding Partners are able to fund a variety of requests, including general operating, programmatic requests, capital, capacity building, and more. The Collaborative is unlikely to be able to fund endowments and direct grants to individuals (such as scholarships). While several types of requests are allowed, requests for specific aspects of disaster recovery, especially for historically underserved populations and those most impacted by the Maui fires, are generally preferred. 

    The Collaborative’s current funding focus areas are: Housing or Housing Adjacent, Behavioral Health, Access to Healthcare, Education, Youth Support and Engagement, Economic Development, Cultural Preservation and/or Community Resilience, and Systems Change or Advocacy.

  • While there is no formal minimum or maximum request amount, a request between $10,000 and $500,000 is generally preferred, and the average award is around $100,000 or less.

  • Please complete an application form. In addition, you are required to submit:

    • Project budget showing expenses and revenue

    • Current fiscal year operating budget

    • Your most recent 990

    In addition, if available please also submit:

    • Most recent reviewed or audited financial statements

    • 501(c)(3) determination letter, if applicable

    • Board of Directors List or Roster

    • Conflict of Interest Policy

    We encourage you to provide any supplemental materials that will help Funding Partners better understand the need for, and impact of, your request. This may include letters of support, Annual Reports, MOUs (as applicable for collaborative requests), pictures, schematics, proformas, one-pagers, brochures, and more. In the application portal there is an opportunity to “Add another” (a gray button under “Choose File”); you may add an unlimited number of additional attachments.

  • Within two business days of submitting your application, you will receive a confirmation that it has been received. Over the next 10 weeks, the Collaborative’s Funding Partners will review your funding request individually and collectively, determining its alignment. Within 10 weeks of your submission, you will hear from our Collaborative with an update on your project’s funding status.

  • Yes, if your organization has applied to the Collaborative, you are still able to apply directly for funding from the Collaborative’s Funding Partners.  Similarly, if you have recently applied for funding from one of our Collaborative’s Funding Partners, you are still eligible to apply for funding through this Collaborative application.