Nonprofit · EIN 83-4591925
OHANA WAA
Tax-exempt · LIHUE, HI 96766
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $335,456 | $154,033 | $181,423 | $314,281 | $0 | $314,281 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990-EZ | $149,119 | $122,818 | $26,301 | $145,320 | $0 | $145,320 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $335,456
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $0
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $0
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $4,712
- Travel
- $33,899
- Depreciation
- $6,126
- Program services (functional)
- $124,615
- Management and general (functional)
- $29,418
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $154,385
- Total assets, end of year
- $314,281
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets, end of year
- $314,281
- Gross receipts
- $335,456
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 1,000
- Year formed
- 2019
- State of legal domicile
- HI
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Ah Hee | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Damien NK Barcarse | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Milton G Bertelmann | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Pomai Bertelman | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Bruce Blankenfeld | Director Trustee or director | 0 | $0 |
| Leslie Henani Enos | Director Trustee or director | 0 | $0 |
| Timothy Gilliom | Director Trustee or director | 0 | $0 |
| John AP Kruse | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| James A Lyman | Director Trustee or director | 0 | $0 |
| Vernette P Martin | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Chadd C Paishon | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| William K Richards | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Paanaakala Tanaka | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Charles Thompson | Director Trustee or director | 0 | $0 |
| Dennis J Chun | Co-Chair Officer | 2 | $0 |
3 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica AK Fu | Co-Chair Officer | 1 | $0 |
| Heidi Guth | Treasurer Officer | 5 | $0 |
| Leslie K Kimura | Secretary Officer | 1 | $0 |
990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2023: 18 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Ah Hee | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Damien NK Barcarse | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Milton G Bertelmann | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Pomai Bertelman | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Bruce Blankenfeld | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Dennis J Chun | Co-Chair | 5 | $0 |
| Leslie Henani Enos | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Jessica AK Fu | Co-Chair | 5 | $0 |
| Timothy Gilliom | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Heidi Guth | Treasurer | 8 | $0 |
| Leslie K Kimura | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| John AP Kruse | Director | 1 | $0 |
| James A Lyman | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Vernette P Martin | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Chadd C Paishon | Director | 2 | $0 |
| William K Richards | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Paanaakala Tanaka | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Charles Thompson | Director | 1 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 2875 WAA RD, LIHUE, HI 96766-1350
- In care of
- % DENNIS CHUN
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Dennis Chun, 2875 Waa Road, Lihue, HI 96766
- Signed the 990
- Heidi Guth, Treasurer
- Phone
- (808) 941-4059
- Website
- ohanawaahawaii.org
Mission
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.
Program accomplishments
- Capacity Building: During 2024, 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 the Strategic Plan that we developed in 2023. Our contracted grant coordinator, a logistics coordinator, and a website development and maintenance team kept us on task. We also participated in the annual Ikuwa Festival in Hilo, Hawaii, celebrating voyaging across Hawaii, including filling Hilo Bay with little sailing canoes that are perfect for training all ages of sailors and future voyagers.Expenses $13,728 · grants $13,728
- 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 (only through 2023), 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 while must of the funds were expended in 2024, some will continue to be used for Lahaina resident recovery and community building into early 2025. None of these funds went toward administrative costs; they have been and will be all directed to voyaging community members and are provided on a reimbursement basis only, and only up to $5,000 per voyager. For example, the funds were used to help rebuild portions of multi-generational homes, to partial payments for purchases of replacement vehicles, food for families living out of hotel rooms without kitchens, a forklift rental to move pallets of donated supplies, portable toilet rentals, replacement fishing supplies used for sustenance fishing, voyaging canoe repair and replacement engines and trailers, and replacement home supplies. In early 2024, we also supported our Lahaina voyaging community by sailing our large and small voyaging canoes to Lahaina from all of our islands, with our crew and leadership joining the Lahaina Unity March of several thousand people in support of the traditional, multi-ethnic and multi-generational community of Lahaina. The March was organized by an Ohana Waa captain, who lives in Lahaina.Expenses $93,110 · grants $93,110
- Unity among voyaging leadership around the Pacific: In 2024, Ohana Waa continued our cultural exchanges and leadership support for Pacific voyagers. We continued engagement with voyaging leadership by attending and supporting the attendance of significant voyaging events, so that we can continue learn from each other and stay connected, realize synergies, and create opportunities, all of which is best done in person from an indigenous perspective. We also developed makana (cultural gifts) and outreach materials for cultural exchanges, such as banners, table covers, tents, coolers and jugs for traditional provisioning. Specific support was provided for inter-island cross-generational training of crew members and leadership in voyaging and canoe preparation. We began the year by sailing our canoes into Lahaina and joining a Lahaina Unity March with members of the Lahaina, Maui and Hawaii communities. Then, in June, we again sailed in our voyaging canoes from around the islands and flew in voyaging leadership to participate in the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture held in Hawaii. This festival is the world's largest celebration of indigenous Pacific Islanders, and it was the first time it had been held in Hawaii, and it brought indigenous people from more than 20 nations here. Ohana Waa's waa kaulua sailed FestPac leadership into the Opening Ceremony, and members of Ohana Waa participated in FestPac's Waa Community Day, Waa Symposium, and Holomoana (Voyaging) Day. All of these events brought together voyagers, waa elders, and the broader community to experience and engage in activities, presentations, and discussions centered around our rich voyaging history. Next, in the fall, we participated in the Hilo Fill the Bay with small, traditional sailing canoes, including one that was built entirely out of native woods and fibers, and we participated in the annual Ikuwa festival, based on traditional wayfinding, in Hilo's Imiloa Center, which is a member organization of Ohana Waa.Expenses $17,777 · grants $17,777
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990-EZ on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 83-4591925
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2019
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A20)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $314,281
- Income (IRS master file)
- $335,456
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2024 | $335,456 | $154,033 | $314,281 | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2023 | $149,119 | $122,818 | $145,320 | XML |
| 990-EZ | December 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 83-4591925).
Questions about OHANA WAA
- What is the EIN of OHANA WAA?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of OHANA WAA is 83-4591925.
- Is OHANA WAA tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2019.
- Are donations to OHANA WAA tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does OHANA WAA file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of OHANA WAA due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did OHANA WAA last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of OHANA WAA?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Dennis Chun.
- Who are the officers and directors of OHANA WAA?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 18 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.
- How much revenue does OHANA WAA have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $335,456, expenses of $154,033 and total assets of $314,281 at year end.
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