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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by LIVING PONO PROJECT.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,718,341
Total expenses
$1,877,602
Contributions and grants received
$1,718,341
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$885,689
Total liabilities, end of year
-$266,913
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,152,602
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,877,602
Management and general expenses
$0
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,877,602

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $574,601

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,143,740

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $772,099 · program services $772,099 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $79,815 · program services $79,815 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $70,284 · program services $70,284 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $67,273 · program services $67,273 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $4,297 · program services $4,297 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,480 · program services $1,480 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $18,183 · program services $18,183 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $276,598 · program services $276,598 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total -$25,087 · program services -$25,087 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $3,580 · program services $3,580 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $94,942 · program services $94,942 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Reimbursable Expense

    total $5,351 · program services $5,351 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Repair & Maintenance

    total $3,082 · program services $3,082 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Equipment Maintenance

    total $916 · program services $916 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses: Car & Truck

    total $44,985 · program services $44,985 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $459,804 · program services $459,804 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $594,085 · end of year $134,214

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $16,164

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $1,708 · end of year $1,701

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $733,610

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $713,656 · end of year $733,610

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $40,170 · end of year -$295,631

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    end of year $28,718

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,269,279 · end of year $1,152,602

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To revitalize our Hawaiian culture through education, outreach and environmental restoration.

  • Kupaaina Explorations Program: This progam allows sudents to participate in cultural activities outside of the school setting. We assist students in developing cultural values and awareness of Hawaiian culture. Cultural activities include traditional Hawaiian chants, crafts, native plant uses, wayfinding and navigation, paddling, legends, kui kalo and many more activities. This program explores the importance of the Ahupuaa system; sustainability, kuleana, and how this system can be modeled today.

    Expenses $10,483 · Revenue $7,567

  • Living Pono Plantation: The purpose for establishing the Living Pono Plantation is three fold: First, we seek to employ adults with disabilities within the Green Industry at a fair wage while providing them a unique opportunity to learn and gain life skills through a positive and fun alternative work experience. Secondly, by integratiing several sustainable agricultural practices, we will be providing Hawaii consumers with several alternatives to conventionally grown crops from teh mainland as well as healing our aina. Lastly, this system can be an invaluble teaching tool for students to learn about sustainability, a modern working ahupuaa, and to develop a curriculum that is relevant to real world applications.

    Expenses $747,959 · Revenue $495,667

  • Puu Kukui Watershed Preserve: Provides employment to vulnerable populations and education opportunities based in cultural stewardship and watershed protection. These programs demonstrate the connectivity between the natural world and the Hawaiian perspective of alohaaina (ove and stewardship for land). Puu Kukui Watershed Preserve is an excellent resource for environmental education and provides a multitude of hands on learning spaces where humana (learners) can see, touch, and be emersed in ecosystem processes first hand. This intac ahupuaa and larger moku complex showcases the dynamic interactions of different ecosystems within ahupuaa, as well as potential impacts that global warming may have on a community.

    Expenses $1,119,160 · Revenue $1,215,108

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Mercer Vicens

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Anella Saito-Takabayashi

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • K'iiniokapu'uwai Herrick

    Treasurer/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Neal H Ane deceased 2024

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $124,184
    From this org
    $124,184
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Chana M Ane

    Manager

    Total calculated
    $109,375
    From this org
    $109,375
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
1 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202523179349312172

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