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KAHULI LEO LEA

EIN 84-3718571 KANEOHE, HI

Revenue 2024
$1,329,071
Expenses 2024
$1,453,064

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
A68
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 6024

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

KAHULI LEO LE'A IS A 501(C)(3) HAWAI'I NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION AIMED AT CATALYZING ALOHA 'AINA THROUGH THE EDUCATION, COMPOSITION, AND PRESENTATION OF MELE AND OTHER CULTURAL PRACTICES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

KAHULI LEO LE'A SUPPORTS THE EDUCATION, PRESERVATION, COMPOSITION AND THE PRESENTATION OF MELE HAWAI'I (HAWAIIAN SONGS) AND OTHER CULTURAL PRACTICES.

  • KAHULI LEO LE'A PRODUCES THE MAY DAY CONCERT. THE IN-PERSON CONCERT FEATURES PERFORMANCES OF MELE, HULA, AND MO'OLELO THAT DO NOT ONLY SERVE TO ENTERTAIN, BUT TO EDUCATE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND HAWAIIAN CULTURE. $70,000 HAWAIIAN AIRLINES AND VARIOUS SPONSORSHIPS.KLL FOCUSES ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF MELE PRACTITIONERS BY INCREASING THEIR EARNING POTENTIAL THROUGH 1) ACCESSING ROYALTY STREAMS THROUGH THEIR EXISTING CATALOG OF RECORDINGS 2) EXPANDING THEIR CATALOG OF RECORDINGS WITH NEW MELE ACROSS TRADITIONAL AND NEW GENRES, AND 3) INCREASING THE VISIBILITY OF MELE PERFORMERS WITHIN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND MARKETS. $430,000 ADMINISTRATION FOR NATIVE AMERICANS. (ANA L&P, ANA SEDS), $100,000 IMLS.KLL PRODUCES RECORDINGS OF MELE TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE AND MELE AS A CULTURAL PRACTICE AND TO COMMEMORATE SIGNIFICANT HAWAIIAN CULTURAL EVENTS, KS 180 CONTRACT $180,000, NHEP (NO REVENUE RECEIVED IN 2024).

    Expenses $1,342,082 · Grants $1,436 · Revenue $169,331

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.

  • HOLEKA INABA

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • KEELY RIVERA

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • KELI'I RUTH

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • KIM-HEE WONG

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ZACHARY LUM

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $130,356
    From this org
    $127,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,556
    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
    $1,329,071
    Expenses
    $1,453,064
    Contributions
    $1,159,740
    Grants paid
    $1,436
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,340,722
    Expenses
    $980,078
    Contributions
    $1,139,167
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $740,770
    Expenses
    $677,415
    Contributions
    $620,426
    Grants paid
    $1,000

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
    $425,982
    Expenses
    $442,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $70,530

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $135,529
    Expenses
    $115,392
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,607

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Zachary Lum
Mailing address
47-430 Hui Nene StKaneohe HI 96744

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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