PACIFIC TRADITIONS SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 189

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 · 2025

• All aims were met by the end of year 2 of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung grant program led by Pacific Traditions Society (PTS) and co-led by Holau Vaka Taumako Association (HVTA) of Solomon Islands and Pasana Group (PG) of Papua New Guinea. During 2025 both HVTA and PG completed construction of an ancient design of deep-sea vessel for their voyaging schools, and the process was documented on video. GHS added 25,000.EU to their total grant to meet rising costs of transport and communications, and a supplementary grant by Full Circle met 140,000. USD in costs not covered by the GHS grant. The opening of the Taumako Traditional Culture and Voyaging School was celebrated by the community of HVTA, the leaders of PG and PTS, and other international voyaging school leaders including Mario Benito of Inowon of Polowat, Federated States of Micronesia, Sanakoli John of Pasana Group of Basilaki Island, Papua New Guinea, and Setareki Ledua of Drua Sailing Experience of Fulaga, Fiji, and Pacific Traditions Society staff and supporters Marianne George, Kyle McDonald and Thomas Polacheck. Solomon Islander leaders included the Bishop of Temotu and his party, including a Chief from Tuo Village, Fenualoa Island, Reef Islands. In December, 2025 PTS, Inowon and DSE submitted a proposal to GHS for a grant that would support meeting the same aims during 2026-2028. In May, 2025 HVTA began video documentation of breadfruit fermentation pits and other food security methods by Taumakans, funded by the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme of the British Museum. Throughout 2025 PTS helped HVTA and PG build their own organisational capacities to communicate externally and to administer and seek their own grants and funding sources. During 2025 M. George and H. Wyeth made presentations about PTS, HVTA, and PG projects in California, Australia, London, Hawaiian Islands, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea Saipan, Fiji, and online.

  Expenses $276,570 · Revenue $336,418

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $336,418

  Expenses

  $289,612

  Contributions

  $336,418

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $328,524

  Expenses

  $360,291

  Contributions

  $328,050

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $276,951

  Expenses

  $119,508

  Contributions

  $276,951

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $165,479

  Expenses

  $171,413

  Contributions

  $165,479

  Grants paid

  — not reported

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

  $349,749

  Expenses

  $168,532

  Assets (EOY)

  $287,619

• 2020 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $190,921

  Expenses

  $128,132

  Assets (EOY)

  $107,613

• 2019 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $174,434

  Expenses

  $151,314

  Assets (EOY)

  $41,391

• 2018 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $142,457

  Expenses

  $169,102

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,787

• 2017 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $198,371

  Expenses

  $168,900

  Assets (EOY)

  $55,943

• 2016 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $89,910

  Expenses

  $87,655

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,841

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $80,028

  Expenses

  $82,621

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,191

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $120,968

  Expenses

  $117,290

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,711

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $156,156

  Expenses

  $176,165

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,311

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $111,857

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,222

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

• MUSEUM ASSOCIATES

  $15,000

  2023 · CURATORIAL

• MUSEUM ASSOCIATES

  $0

  2022 · CURATORIAL

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