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UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC

EIN 99-0240539 KAILUA KONA, HI

Revenue 2024
$32,886,257
Expenses 2024
$32,063,307

Program services were 91.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B40
Classification
2000
Street
75-5851 KUAKINI HWY 433

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

TO EDUCATE AND EQUIP YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ALL NATIONS IN SPIRITUALITY, INTEGRITY, PERSONAL LIFE SKILLS, AND BUSINESS SKILLS TO BE MULTIPLIED AROUND THE WORLD.

  • UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS, KONA, INC. (UNK) PROVIDES TRAINING IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: ARTS, HEALTH CARE, APPLIED LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGES, SPORTS & FITNESS, FAMILY STUDIES, CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, COMMUNICATION, COUNSELING, EDUCATION, HUMANITIES & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, AND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. UNK UTILIZES A LIVE-LEARN LIFESTYLE WITH QUARTERLY MODULAR COURSES. UNK'S EDUCATION INCLUDES FIELD WORK IN MANY COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. UNK IS A LEGALLY INDEPENDENT, STAND-ALONE CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS (U OF N). THE U OF N IS A GLOBAL UNIVERSITY, OFFERING OVER 650 COURSES IN OVER 160 NATIONS. THE U OF N WAS ESTABLISHED BY YOUTH WITH A MISSION (YWAM), AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT CALLED TO MAKE GOD KNOWN INTO EVERY ARENA OF SOCIETY THROUGH EVANGELISM, TRAINING AND MERCY MINISTRY.

    Expenses $29,325,819 · Grants $2,030,614 · Revenue $16,428,411

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.

  • DAVID JOEL HAMILTON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $50,713
    From this org
    $50,713
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • SUNAWH PARK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $48,560
    From this org
    $48,560
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • DAVE BATEMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN CURTIS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • PAUL CHILDERS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $77,807
    From this org
    $77,807
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • BETTY KWONG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNN GREEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM WADDLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MARTIN REDIGER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DANIEL HOOGTEIJLING

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $27,142
    From this org
    $27,142
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • WALTER FENNER

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $26,584
    From this org
    $26,584
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $32,886,257
    Expenses
    $32,063,307
    Contributions
    $16,052,132
    Grants paid
    $2,030,614
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $35,222,291
    Expenses
    $34,248,859
    Contributions
    $16,712,863
    Grants paid
    $1,361,642
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $31,684,442
    Expenses
    $30,962,273
    Contributions
    $14,001,031
    Grants paid
    $1,238,052

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
    $30,442,287
    Expenses
    $27,844,610
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,462,726

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $20,435,936
    Expenses
    $19,442,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,854,448

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $24,732,592
    Expenses
    $24,331,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,687,883

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,581,016
    Expenses
    $26,251,654
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,571,186

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,751,349
    Expenses
    $23,818,780
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,717,637

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $20,913,788
    Expenses
    $20,209,564
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,667,861

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,541,644
    Expenses
    $21,334,772
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,383,152

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,488,349
    Expenses
    $19,921,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,803,389

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $21,687,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,556,213

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $19,892,282
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,709,787

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.