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AKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FOR

EIN 46-4119442 HILO, HI

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Revenue 2024
$958,289
Expenses 2024
$901,554

Program services were 85.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C34
Classification
1000
Street
60 NOWELO 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 · 2024

Mission

TO ENHANCE AND PROMOTE A FOREST STEWARDSHIP ETHIC THAT EMBRACES RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION STRATEGIES THROUGH INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONAL AND WESTERN KNOWLEDGE, AND THROUGH STRATEGIC COOPERATION AMONG PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS. WE SUPPORT THREE INITIATIVES THAT PROMOTE THRIVING ECOSYSTEMS, CULTURAL PRACTICE, AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS.

  • KAIAULU PUUWAAWAA COMMUNITY-BASED SUBSISTENCE FOREST AREA: THIS COMMUNITY-BASED COLLABORATION LED BY LINEAL DESCENDANTS OF PUUWAAWAA AIMS TO REFOREST 84-ACRES AT PUUWAAWAA, ONCE A VIBRANT DRYLAND FOREST, NOW DOMINATED BY INVASIVE GRASSES. THIS INITIATIVE IS AMONG HAWAII'S FIRST COMMUNITY-LED EFFORTS ON PUBLIC LANDS, OFFERING A MODEL FOR SIMILAR ENDEAVORS. GOALS INCLUDE FOREST RESTORATION, ENHANCING ACCESS TO CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT PLANTS, AUGMENTING CARBON SEQUESTRATION, AND FOSTERING RIDGE- TO-REEF RESILIENCE THROUGH BIOCULTURAL EDUCATION AND STEWARDSHIP.

    Expenses $306,538

  • OHIA DISEASE RESISTANCE PROGRAM (ODRP): A COALITION LED BY AFTF AND THE USDA FOREST SERVICE, ODRP STANDS AT THE FOREFRONT OF COMBATING RAPID OHIA DEATH (ROD), A FUNGAL PATHOGEN IMPERILING THE OHIA TREE (METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA) - A SPECIES FOUNDATIONAL TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN CULTURAL PRACTICES AND LIFEWAYS, AND AN ECOLOGICAL KEYSTONE THAT COVERS NEARLY ONE MILLION ACRES OF HAWAII'S LANDSCAPE; MAKING IT THE BACKBONE OF HAWAII'S NATIVE FORESTS AND WATERSHEDS. ROD HAS ALREADY CAUSED 180,000 ACRES IN OHIA MORTALITY. THE MISSION OF THE ODRP EMPHASIZES RESTORING THE FORESTS AFFLICTED BY ROD WITH POTENTIAL ROD-RESISTANT STRAINS OF OHIA, REPRESENTING A BEACON OF HOPE FOR HAWAII'S NATIVE FORESTS. RECENT MILESTONES INCLUDE: (1) EXECUTION OF TWO INTENSIVE DISEASE-RESISTANCE SCREENING TRIALS, INVOLVING 686 OHIA TREES FROM AREAS WITH PRONOUNCED ROD MORTALITY. (2) IDENTIFICATION OF 371 OHIA TREES SHOWCASING RESILIENCE AGAINST THE FUNGAL PATHOGEN THAT CAUSES ROD. (3) DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO USE DISEASE-RESISTANT OHIA TO RESTORE AREAS AFFECTED BY ROD, ENSURING THE TREE'S CONTINUED PRESENCE IN HAWAII'S LANDSCAPES.

    Expenses $260,556

  • PILINA AINA: A DYNAMIC COLLABORATION BETWEEN AFTF, THE US FOREST SERVICE, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA, PILINA AINA CELEBRATES AND REINFORCES THE PROFOUND CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY AND THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS. THE TERM "PILINA" ENCAPSULATES RELATIONSHIPS, WHILE "AINA" REPRESENTS THE LAND, THE VERY CRUX OF THE INITIATIVE. PILINA AINA PROVIDES IMMERSIVE AND EMPOWERING AINA-BASED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND EDUCATION RESOURCES THAT ENCOURAGE, FACILITATE, AND ENHANCE STUDENT, TEACHER, AND COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS WITH AINA. THESE EXPERIENCES, ANCHORED IN PLACE AND HAWAIIAN LIFEWAYS AND PRACTICES, CULTIVATE A DEEPER AND PERSONALLY TRANSFORMATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF HAWAII'S NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS AND PROVIDE ENHANCED SECONDARY EDUCATION AND CAREER-PREPAREDNESS FOR YOUTH. WE OFFER PROGRAMMING TO HAWAII'S GRADE 4-12 STUDENTS AND THEIR TEACHERS THROUGH DAY TRIP FIELD COURSES, OVERNIGHT FIELD COURSES, INTENSIVE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY-BASED EVENTS, AND YEAR-LONG PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS IN STEM. WE SERVE 1,000+ STUDENTS ANNUALLY.

    Expenses $199,250 · Revenue $27,082

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.

  • Hannah Kihalani Springer

    CHAIR OF THE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dr Michael J Chun

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Kaniela Akaka Jr

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert McKendry

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gerard Akaka MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Douglas Jacobs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rebekah Ohara

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $89,330
    From this org
    $83,330
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,000
    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
    $958,289
    Expenses
    $901,554
    Contributions
    $930,487
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $852,102
    Expenses
    $852,813
    Contributions
    $816,322
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $889,243
    Expenses
    $922,257
    Contributions
    $853,494
    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
    $675,647
    Expenses
    $609,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $192,478

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $563,805
    Expenses
    $555,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,246

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $265,275
    Expenses
    $207,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,420

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $158,812
    Expenses
    $163,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,304

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $139,537
    Expenses
    $76,644
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,470

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 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Robert K Masuda
Mailing address
PO BOX 1525Kamuela HI 96743

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.