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FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE

EIN 99-0296604 HONOLULU, HI

Revenue 2024
$4,620,327
Expenses 2024
$4,810,445

Program services were 92.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Z99Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 2655

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of Friends of the Future is to create trust and harmony among the diverse cultures of Hawaii through a process where all people can openly contribute their deepest values, create shared visions and continuously improve their commuities.

  • Youth Programs include: Four (4) Aloha MAP programs provided academic tutoring, college/career coaching, hands on STEM activities and family enrichment field trips to 8,700 students in grades K-12 in pubic schools on Hawaii Island. No Ke Ola Pono provided field day physical activities at 12 public elementary and middle schools serving 1,450 students while also providing SEL skills. Earl's garage provided monthly Family Science Night activities for children ages 7 and up, providing a shared family experience and a simple meal; a total of 50 adults and 75 children were served.

    Expenses $3,528,363

  • Health & Wellness Programs include: Tutu's House, a community resource center serving the community for more than 30 years, offered 1,032 in-person and video conferencing health-related education presentations with 6,875 attendees, and a lending library used by 85 individuals. Neighborhood place of Kona provided care coordination services, emergency food and diapers, and housing assistance for 140 families with children ages birth to 18, offered six (6) community events with more than 300 attendees, and received 425 requests for information and referral services. Waimea Trails & Greenways, a community effort to build 6 miles of multi-modal transportation trails thoughout Waimea, held four (4) community work days attended by 55 volunteers. Waimea Futures is a community-wide effort to create a shared vision for Waimea?s Future. During the year six (6) 90-day prototype projects focused on community-identified priorities. A total of 12 activities, attended by more than 350 people shared oral histoies and community values.

    Expenses $626,302

  • Cultural Programs include: Na Haumana o Papa Auwae 20 students/practitioners continued stewardship of Lapakahi State Park. Hui Kuapa perpeturates Hawaiian history, music, dance and storytelling through monthly Twilight at Klahuipuaa gatherings, attended by 2,500 people. Ho'ola Hou is a cultural program that perpetuates taro farming by providing opportunities for students and community members to learn and practice taro farming; a total of 200 stutudents and 75 adults participated in the program.

    Expenses $290,038

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lilinoi Grace

    Project Director

    Total calculated
    $256,129
    From this org
    $234,301
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,828
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $234,301
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,828
    Filer's total
    $256,129

  • John Al Defries

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark McGuffie

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sharon L Sakai

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Georgine Busch

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,620,327
    Expenses
    $4,810,445
    Contributions
    $4,559,648
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,103,559
    Expenses
    $5,829,032
    Contributions
    $6,095,615
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,808,289
    Expenses
    $4,445,787
    Contributions
    $4,782,205
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,914,086
    Expenses
    $4,463,908
    Assets (EOY)
    $825,602

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,939,805
    Expenses
    $2,928,025
    Assets (EOY)
    $991,319

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,680,200
    Expenses
    $2,866,232
    Assets (EOY)
    $669,560

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,818,029
    Expenses
    $2,884,776
    Assets (EOY)
    $879,303

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,103,753
    Expenses
    $2,391,438
    Assets (EOY)
    $792,147

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,505,284
    Expenses
    $1,637,318
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,322,181

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $921,617
    Expenses
    $1,151,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,196,287

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $921,422
    Expenses
    $892,030
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,001,841

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,085,704
    Expenses
    $1,167,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,896,176

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,111,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,981,860

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.