Imi Ola Canoe Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874189503
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8088643403
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,884
- Expenses
- $43,982
- Assets
- $75,296
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVEN MEYER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEVEN MEYER (PRESIDENT)
- AMADEUS KIKILA-DEBIBAR (VICE PRESIDE)
- SANDIE FREITAS (SECRETARY)
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 maintain and perpetuate hawaiian culture through the promotion of hawaiian watersports. To teach, train, instruct, and expose children, men and women in the ancient art, craft, and history of hawaiian canoeing. To provide the means, equipment, and facilities for canoe activities tending to foster the development and maintenance of strong and healthy minds, bodies, and spirit among all people.
What it reported doing in 2025
Imi ola canoe club participated in the hui waa racing association spring preseason and summer regatta season with 145 registered members racing in fifteen races. Of the 145 paddlers, 46 student members also participated in the na opio canoe racing association for children aged 7 - 18, competing in four races. There was also a student crew of nine paddlers who competed during the long distance and one-man canoe race season. Imi ola paid fees and sponsored paddlers to compete in the world sprints in hilo, Hawaii. In addition to teaching members how to train and compete in the hawaiian sport of canoe paddling, they are taught hawaiian protocol and values of kuleana (responsibility), malama (caring for the canoes, the practice site, and collecting rubbish in the ocean), lokahi (unity as a crew and a club), haahaa (humility), pono (doing what is correct and proper), and aloha. Cultural activities include learning the history of mauli ola, environmental sustainability, and making crafts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.4%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 62; 62nd 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: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 42% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.