Maui's Sons & Daughters of the Nisei Veterans
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990218990
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Wailuku, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8082492163
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,437
- Expenses
- $27,889
- Assets
- $243,585
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TED KESAJI (PRESIDENT)
- FLOYD NAGOSHI (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LEONARD OKA (DIRECTOR)
- JILL ROSS (DIRECTOR)
- MARK MIZUNO (TREASURER)
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
Perpetuate the legacy created during world war ii by the 442nd regimental combat team, the 100th battalion and the military intelligence service, and the 1399th; the legacy of nisei veterans.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program service accomplishments: scholarship program to support the families of fallen comrades serving in the 100th infantry battalion, 442nd regimental combat team, military intelligence service and the 1399th engineering battalion, comrades who were killed in military service during wwii. This scholarship program was later expanded to benefit any maui high school senior. A major criteria was a personal statement by each applicant to describe their understanding of the nisei veteran's contribution to the community and how they might also contribute to the betterment of the island community. The intent was to educate the youth in our community about the legacy left by the nisei soldiers and to make them understand their role in perpetuating this legacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 54
- Growth: 60
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: -9.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.73; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.