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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by PACIFIC TRADITIONS SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$328,524
Total expenses
$360,291
Contributions and grants received
$328,050
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$474
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$404,655
Total liabilities, end of year
$4,094
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$400,561
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$349,720
Management and general expenses
$10,571
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$349,720

Program services were 97.1% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $328,050

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $474 · unrelated business $474

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $30,207 · program services $30,207

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $188 · management and general $188

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $2,511 · program services $2,511

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $7,583 · management and general $7,583

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $16 · management and general $16

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $363 · program services $363

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $68 · program services $32 · management and general $36

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $4,478 · program services $4,454 · management and general $24

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $92,849 · program services $92,849

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $5,297 · program services $5,297

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $498 · management and general $498

  • 24a · Other expenses: EXTERNAL PROGRAMS

    total $146,439 · program services $146,439

  • 24b · Other expenses: OUTSIDE SERVICES

    total $38,209 · program services $38,209

  • 24c · Other expenses: COMMUNICATIONS

    total $14,886 · program services $14,886

  • 24d · Other expenses: MATERIALS/ SUPPLIES

    total $13,898 · program services $13,898

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $2,801 · program services $575 · management and general $2,226

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $119,860 · end of year $72,588

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

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

    $55,316

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $50,027

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $10,586 · end of year $5,289

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $315,425 · end of year $326,778

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $13,543 · end of year $4,094

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $432,328 · end of year $400,561

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO FOSTER WORLD PEACE, CULTURAL RESEARCH, AND DOCUMENT TRADITIONAL INITIATIVES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND EDUCATION IN ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF VOYAGING AND HEALTH PRACTICES OF MARITIME CULTURES.

  • THROUGHOUT 2024 PACIFIC TRADITIONS SOCIETY (PTS) GAVE SUPPORT TO HOLAU VAKA TAUMAKO ASSOCIATION (HVTA) AND PASANA GROUP (PG) FOR CAPACITY BUILDING AS WELL AS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR CANOE HOUSES. PTS BEGAN THE PROGRAMS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM THE GERDA HENKEL STIFTUNG FOUNDATION. M. GEORGE SAILED TO ALOTAU ON ONE OF THE 3 PG SAILAU THAT SAILED THERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NATIONAL KANU AND KUNDU FESTIVAL. THE PG SAILAU WERE CREWED BY YOUNG PG STUDENTS WHO PLACED 1ST, 2ND AND 4TH OUT OF 82 SAILAU THAT RACED IN THE FESTIVAL, MOST BEING CREWED BY ADULTS. IN FEBRUARY M. GEORGE, HEUIONALANI WYETH AND L. VAIKAWI TRAVELED TO LUMOLUMO, BASILAKI ISLAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA TO HELP PG FINALIZE REGISTRATION OF THEIR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION. IN MARCH PTS MOVED S.V. LATA HULL IN A CRADLE, HER MAST, RIGGING AND OUTRIGGER FROM ITS DRY STORAGE AT HONOKOHAU HARBOR TO A PRIVATE FARM IN KAPA`AU. EFFORTS CONTINUED THROUGH THE YEAR TO ARRANGE FOR THE VESSEL TO BE SOLD OR DONATED TO AN EDUCATIONAL CONCERN. SEVERAL CONTAINERS OF SV LATA SAFETY AND COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT WERE CARRIED TO HVTA AND PG AS LUGGAGE OF TRAVELERS WHENEVER FLYING THERE. IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER L. VAIKAWI, AN HVTA VOLUNTEER, A FISHER NAMED AMOS WAIARU, AND M. GEORGE, PARTICIPATED IN THE NORTHERN PEOPLES FISHING CONFERENCE OF SNOWCHANGE COOPERATIVE LOCATED IN FINLAND. IN SEPTEMBER D.B. BOSI, H WYETH AND M. GEORGE TRAVELED TO LONDON AND BOSI AND GEORGE PARTICIPATED IN THE TRAINING FOR THE ENDANGERED MATERIAL KNOWLEDGE PROGRAM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. NUMEROUS PRESENTATIONS, CONSULTATIONS, AND GRANT PROPOSALS WERE MADE IN PERSON AND IN ZOOM MEETINGS, IN WHICH PTS INTRODUCED HVTA AND PG VOYAGING EDUCATION LEADERS AND PROPOSED FUTURE PROGRAMS. LATER IN SEPTEMBER KYLE MCDONALD, D.B. BOSI, M. GEORGE, AND H. WYETH MADE PRESENTATIONS AT U.C. SAN DIEGO AS PART OF THE EMBODIED PACIFIC EXHIBIT, IN WHICH A PANDANUS SAIL MADE BY TAUMAKO WEAVERS WAS PRESENTED TO THE KUMEYAAY NATION. PRESENTATIONS AT U.C. LOS ANGELES FOR A PROGRAM ABOUT WOMEN VOYAGERS AND ANCESTRAL GUIDES WERE ALSO MADE. IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER M. GEORGE AND INTERN ZOE FOSTER TRAVELED TO LUMOLUMO TO DELIVER AND FACILATE INSTALLATION OF A STARLINK AND AN ELECTRIC SOLAR SYSTEM.

    Expenses $349,720 · Revenue $328,050

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Marianne George

    Director

    Total calculated
    $30,207
    From this org
    $30,207
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30
  • Julia Morgan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • H M Wyeth

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Robert Lambden

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rich Winegar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Darienne Dey

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202503189349309470

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