Halau Ka Lei Mokihana O Leinaala
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452780634
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Kalaheo, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8086392671
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,500
- Expenses
- $75,460
- Assets
- $176,000
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Breeze Pavao (President)
- Jaeden Pavao (Executive Vice President)
- Nicole Kashiwabara (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Breeze Pavao (President)
- Jaeden Pavao (Executive Vice President)
- Nicole Kashiwabara (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Contributions are used to support the organization's charitable, educational, and cultural purposes, including the preservation, perpetuation, and teaching of Hawaiian cultural practices, hula, oli, mele, language, traditions, and related educational and community activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided hula instruction, cultural education, performances and community activities to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian culture, language, music and dance. Program activities included classes, rehearsals, cltural events, and participation in community and hula-related events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 96.6%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.33; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 96.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.