2024-11-15T22:16:42-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 834591925 OHANA WAA OHAN 8089414059 2875 Waa Road Lihue HI 96766 Heidi Guth Treasurer 8089414059 2024-11-15 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X ohanawaahawaii.org X X 149119 X 149119 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 149119 0 0 0 20251 2016 837 99714 122818 26301 116977 2042 145320 X 98601 128985 0 0 18376 16335 116977 145320 0 0 116977 145320 The educational and charitable purposes of Ohana Waa are embedded in our mission to work together to elevate the collective health and life of our Voyaging traditions, and in our vision to ensure our voyaging legacies live on. Capacity Building During 2023, Ohana Waa continued to hold regular (at least monthly) Zoom meetings among directors, officers and interested parties who live across Hawaii. These regular meetings kept the Hawaii-wide voyaging community connected and inspired. We continued our capacity building focus from 2022, based on a grant we received in 2021, with funds and tasks carried over into 2022 and 2023. Our grant coordinator, a website development team and a strategic planning team kept us on task. By the end of the year, we had completed our strategic plan that the entire board had helped craft, replete with our new mission and vision. Our website was live and we sent representatives to Alaska to meet and collaborate with other Pacific voyaging organization leadership, while participating in the launch of one of our founding organization's launch of a circumnavigation of the Pacific ocean with two of their voyaging canoes. We also participated in the annual Ikuwa Festival in Hilo, Hawaii, celebrating voyaging across Hawaii. 94377 94377 Lahaina After the devastating August 2023 wildfires, which destroyed the heart of the Maui's voyaging community in Lahaina, Ohana Waa took in grants and donations specifically to support that voyaging community. As one ohana (family) across all our islands, we have always come together to support the individual canoe communities that make up Ohana Waa when there is need. The support and generosity for our Maui ohana was heart lifting for that community to experience and for all of us to witness. Donations and messages from across the world reminded us that we are not isolated in the middle of the Pacific; the ocean continues to connect us. The funding platform was temporary, with funds used for short-term relief efforts toward the health of the broader Lahaina voyaging community, as that community decided its own direction and where resources should flow. The grants and donations exceeded our hopes, and will continue to be used for Lahaina resident recovery and community building through 2024. 149119 16405 110782 Abraham Ah Hee Director 1 0 0 0 Damien NK Barcarse Director 2 0 0 0 Milton G Bertelmann Director 1 0 0 0 Pomai Bertelman Director 2 0 0 0 Bruce Blankenfeld Director 1 0 0 0 Dennis J Chun Co-Chair 5 0 0 0 Leslie Henani Enos Director 1 0 0 0 Jessica AK Fu Co-Chair 5 0 0 0 Timothy Gilliom Director 1 0 0 0 Heidi Guth Treasurer 8 0 0 0 Leslie K Kimura Secretary 1 0 0 0 John AP Kruse Director 1 0 0 0 James A Lyman Director 1 0 0 0 Vernette P Martin Director 2 0 0 0 Chadd C Paishon Director 2 0 0 0 William K Richards Director 1 0 0 0 Paanaakala Tanaka Director 2 0 0 0 Charles Thompson Director 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HI Heidi Guth 249 Paiko Drive Apartment A Honolulu HI 96821 8089414059 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 5100 150000 0 149119 304219 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5100 150000 0 149119 304219 304219 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 304219 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Supplies;49588|Travel;41362|Equipement Rental;7357|Memberships and Subscriptions;1328|Bank and Service Charges;79^Total;99714^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Description;Amount^Depreciation;2042^Total;2042^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Description;EOY Amount^Value after depreciation;16335^Total;16335^ We submitted our Form 8868 in a timely manner and received an automatic extension of time to file an exempt organization return, therefore our Form 990-EZ statement is not being filed late.