Form 990-EZ for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$149,119

Total expenses

$122,818

Contributions and grants received

$149,119

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Membership dues (line 3)

$0

Investment income (line 4)

$0

Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)

$0

Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)

$0

Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)

$0

Other revenue (line 8)

$0

Total assets, end of year

$145,320

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$145,320

Program service expenses (Part III)

$110,782

Program services were 90.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2023

• 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.

  Expenses $94,377 · Grants $94,377

• 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.

  Expenses $16,405 · Grants $149,119

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part IV

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_ez

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

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