Halau O Aulani Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521978774
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Arlington, VA, USA
Phone
3019197905
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,338
Expenses
$42,842
Assets
$72,109
Liabilities
$1,017

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Wendell Yee (Chairman)
  • Tam Fiely (Board Treasurer)
  • Shirley Queja (Board Secretary, Principal)

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

Halau O 'Aulani is organized and is operated exclusively as a school for Native Hawai'ian history, culture, and languange. Its mission is to teach and perpetuate the cultures, traditions and values of the People of Hawai'i through dances, languages, arts, music, history and customs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Hoike (Annual Student Showcase) - The school hosted a one-day end-of-year public showcase in which enrolled students demonstrated proficiency in curriculum areas covered during the academic year. The event served a charitable and educational purpose by promoting Hawaiian cultural arts within the greater DMV community. Programming included hula, traditional Hawaiian music, and allied Polynesian performing arts - specifically Tahitian, Maori, and Samoan dance - presented under the direction of visiting master instructors from Hawaii.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.4%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 25.3%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.4% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.