Hui Waa O Molokai
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 394922138
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kaunakakai, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8086580042
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,115
- Expenses
- $1,643
- Assets
- $2,472
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOHIAO PAOA (PRESIDENT, D)
People named in this filing
- LOHIAO PAOA (PRESIDENT, D)
- MATT YAMASHITA (VICE PRESIDE)
- VERNETTE MARTIN (DIRECTOR)
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
To empower future generations with ike kupuna and a deep connection to aina, kai, and community through the practice and teaching of waa, traditional polynesian voyaging, cultural learning, environmental stewardship, and community-based education on molokai.
What it reported doing in 2025
Voyaging education, cultural learning, and stewardship planning: during its initial year, the organization focused on formation, exemption, and program planning for future educational activities centered on traditional polynesian voyaging, navigation, seamanship, cultural protocols, and community-based learning on molokai. The organization also began planning for a permanent place to support community-based education, traditional voyaging practices, cultural stewardship, and environmental restoration. These planned activities are intended to serve youth and adults through workshops, classroom lessons, canoe maintenance days, supervised on-water learning, and stewardship activities rooted in malama, kuleana, laulima, and respect for aina and kai.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.