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POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY

EIN 23-7302232 HONOLULU, HI

Revenue 2024
$3,807,876
Expenses 2024
$2,143,654

Program services were 73.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A200
Classification
8000
Street
10 SAND ISLAND PKWY

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).

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.

  • AJ HALAGAO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ANTHONY MALLOTT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRUCE BLANKENFELD

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • CATHERINE FULLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DENNIS FERN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • ERIC CO

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12.5

  • DR NATHAN WONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HARDY SPOEHR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HARRY HO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MICHAEL CHUN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • NEIL HANNAHS

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • TIM JOHNS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • WILLIAM TAM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RAY TANABE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHARLES NAINOA THOMPSON

    CHEIF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $173,402
    From this org
    $155,948
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,454
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,948
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,454
    Filer's total
    $173,402

  • ELSIE GRAHAM

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $79,877
    From this org
    $79,877
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • SONJA SWENSON

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $137,037
    From this org
    $119,583
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,454
    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 — 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
    $3,807,876
    Expenses
    $2,143,654
    Contributions
    $3,741,369
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,851,836
    Expenses
    $2,475,873
    Contributions
    $2,499,777
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,569,098
    Expenses
    $1,395,455
    Contributions
    $1,286,950
    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.

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

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 10 September 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.