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PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS

EIN 99-0293514 HONOLULU, HI

Revenue 2024
$2,269,967
Expenses 2024
$2,347,591

Program services were 76.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Z99Z
Classification
2000
Street
615 PIIKOI ST STE 1203

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 PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS (PIC) IS TO SUPPORT, ADVANCE, AND DEVELOP PACIFIC ISLAND MEDIA CONTENT AND TALENT THAT ENHANCES PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF AND APPRECIATION FOR PACIFIC ISLANDER HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SUPPORT, ADVANCE, AND DEVELOP PACIFIC ISLAND MEDIA CONTENT AND TALENT THAT ENHANCES PUBLIC RECOGNITION OF AND APPRECIATION FOR PACIFIC ISLANDER HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY.

  • DURING THE FISCAL YEAR, PIC CONTINUED TO AMPLIFY NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER (NHPI) VOICES THAT ENRICH AMERICA'S CULTURAL LANDSCAPE THROUGH THE ART OF STORYTELLING. WE ARE THE ONLY ORGANIZATION IN THE COUNTRY THAT DOES THIS BY DEVELOPING, PRODUCING, AND FUNDING FILMS, AS WELL AS PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO EMERGING FILMMAKERS, AND ENGAGING AUDIENCES THROUGH PUBLIC MEDIA DISTRIBUTION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SCREENINGS.

    Expenses $1,784,493 · Grants $870,758

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • JANEL QUIRANTE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RITA NAUTA

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUZANNA HERNANDEZ

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TARYN JACKSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VINCENT IULI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • REGINA MEREDITH FITIAO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BALTAZAR AGUON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TAVAE SAMUELU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JASON SUAPAIA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHERYL HIRASA

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $150,103
    From this org
    $141,332
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,771
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,332
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,771
    Filer's total
    $150,103

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
    $2,269,967
    Expenses
    $2,347,591
    Contributions
    $2,231,333
    Grants paid
    $870,758
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,915,282
    Expenses
    $1,706,560
    Contributions
    $1,895,708
    Grants paid
    $475,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,912,512
    Expenses
    $1,717,225
    Contributions
    $1,903,856
    Grants paid
    $586,873

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
    $1,698,073
    Expenses
    $1,391,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,859,639

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,336,695
    Expenses
    $1,281,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,202,163

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,448,283
    Expenses
    $1,334,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,407,636

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,212,471
    Expenses
    $1,294,519
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,105,977

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,625,642
    Expenses
    $1,390,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,877,234

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,458,067
    Expenses
    $1,483,812
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,584,817

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,429,720
    Expenses
    $1,422,663
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,671,205

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,201,447
    Expenses
    $1,188,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,659,320

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,649,882
    Expenses
    $1,545,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,525,579

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,638,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,575,934

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

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

Where these grants went next →

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.