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MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL

EIN 99-0157105 HILO, HI

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Revenue 2023
$1,420,704
Expenses 2023
$1,012,230

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A230
Classification
1000
Street
865 PIILANI ST

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 · 2023

Mission

THE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT HONORS THE LEGACY LEFT BY KING DAVID KALAKAUA, WHO INSPIRED THE PERPETUATION OF HAWAIIAN TRADITIONS, NATIVE LANGUAGE AND THE ARTS.

  • THE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL WAS ORGANIZED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING AND PERPETUATING NATIVE HAWAIIAN CULTURE AND THE ART OF HULA. THE WEEK-LONG FESTIVAL INCLUDES ART EXHIBITS, A CRAFT FAIR, DEMONSTRATIONS, MUSIC PERFORMANCES, A ROYAL PARADE, AND A THREE-DAY HULA COMPETITION THAT HAS RECEIVED WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION FOR ITS HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL HAS LED TO A RENAISSANCE IN NATIVE HAWAIIAN CULTURE. THE FESTIVAL IS CONSIDERED THE WORLD'S PREMIER FORUM FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES TO DISPLAY THEIR SKILL AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ART OF ANCIENT AND MODERN HULA.

    Expenses $907,780

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Luana Kawelu

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    80

  • Kathleen Kawelu

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Leinani Andrade

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Charles Aki

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keegan Miura

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Wendy Waipa

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,420,704
    Expenses
    $1,012,230
    Contributions
    $161,698
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,486,227
    Expenses
    $989,971
    Contributions
    $311,775
    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
    $936,644
    Expenses
    $885,307
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,036,126

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $395,615
    Expenses
    $316,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $984,789

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $657,331
    Expenses
    $579,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $905,862

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.

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.