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MOANOLUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 99-0143900 HONOLULU, HI

Largest nonprofits in Hawaii

Revenue 2023
$644,624
Expenses 2023
$698,188

Program services were 74.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A230
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 8637

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

TO PRESERVE THE NATIVE CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT OF HAWAII THROUGH EDUCATION.

  • PRINCE LOT HULA FESTIVAL - THE LARGEST NON-COMPETITIVE HULA EXHIBITION, CRAFT FAIR, CULTURAL DEMONSTRATIONS, CONCERTS AND MORE. THE ANNUAL EVENT HAS BEEN RUNNING FOR 46 YEARS, THE EVENT RETURNED TO A LIVE FESTIVAL WITH A VIRTUAL COMPONENT WITH OVER 225,000 PEOPLE VIEWING A TWO-HOUR TELEVISED FESTIVAL.

    Expenses $263,308 · Revenue $10,526

  • HUAKA'I O KAMANANUI, AINA BASE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM - THE ONLY PLACED-BASED PROGRAM FOCUSED ON KAMANANUI VALLEY CONTINUED MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION'S NEW MALAMA KAMANANUI ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM AND TRAINED APPROXIMATELY 700 STUDENTS IN THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM OF KAMANANUI VALLEY. MALAMA KAMANANUI STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM CONTINUES WITH A MANAGEMENT PLAN TO PROTECT, PRESERVE, MAINTAIN AND MANAGE KAMANANUI VALLEY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. THE FIRST PHASE IS COMPLETED WITH BOTANICAL AND CULTURAL SURVEYS. THE SECOND PHASE IN COMPILATION AND CONFIRMATION WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY.

    Expenses $254,291 · Revenue $490

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.

  • Kathy Higa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Marlene Sai

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Waihee III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Leilani Williams-Solomon

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Gregory Chun PhD

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michelle Nalei Akina

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michael Pili Pang

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FROM 1/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Joey Keahiolalo

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNTIL 12/23

    Total calculated
    $56,755
    From this org
    $50,853
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,902
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $644,624
    Expenses
    $698,188
    Contributions
    $562,836
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $894,339
    Expenses
    $846,315
    Contributions
    $854,403
    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
    $646,312
    Expenses
    $569,430
    Assets (EOY)
    $959,155
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $384,589
    Expenses
    $361,327
    Assets (EOY)
    $882,099
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $353,358
    Expenses
    $323,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $858,416
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,229
    Expenses
    $413,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $827,899
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,155,371
    Expenses
    $1,959,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $987,394
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $535,802
    Expenses
    $580,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $790,897
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $434,990
    Expenses
    $468,343
    Assets (EOY)
    $835,973
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $449,645
    Expenses
    $314,510
    Assets (EOY)
    $868,945
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $327,565
    Expenses
    $328,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $733,407
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $289,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $747,642

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

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.