Lydia8
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854138386
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Kailua Kona, HI, USA
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,984
- Expenses
- $43,570
- Assets
- $10,414
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mahealani MC Akau (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Mahealani MC Akau (Executive 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
Lydia8 aims to cultivate transformative artistic and cultural opportunities for whine of Hawaii to mobilize their communities and create real change.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program: EPIC Whine Empowering Pacific Indigenous Creatives x KTNMServices Provided: This integrated initiative combined the Kona Town Night Market KTNM infrastructure with the EPIC Whine cultural platform. It delivered a large-scale community hoolaulea featuring indigenous artisan marketplaces live traditional music and curated "Inspiration Stations" within the IRONMAN Village. The program focused on bridging kamaina residents and malihini visitors through vocational mentorship for local youth and visibility for native Hawaiian entrepreneurs.Number of Persons Benefited: Approximately 5,000+ individuals including participating local vendors student volunteers from career academies international athletes and the West Hawaii community.Relevant Information: This collaboration utilized the ACE Model ina-based Arts Culture and Education to provide a centralized hub for cultural exchange and community mobilization during a high-traffic international sporting event.
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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 20; 20th 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: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 107.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.