Te Ao Mana Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854179100
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9148302724
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,419
- Expenses
- $75,978
- Assets
- $5,977
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anthony Aiu (Founder/Creative Director/President)
People named in this filing
- Anthony Aiu (Founder/Creative Director/President)
- Kaina Quenga (Founder/Director)
- Lehuanani DeFranco (Board Member, 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
TE AO MANA expands the presence of Polynesian culture worldwide through the creation of new, Pacific Island culture based, dance work, specialized classes and workshops, performances, and cultural events. The organization creates space for programming, community building, and exhibiting a strong Pacific Island presence in NYC. As representation for this underserved community is severely lacking, the efforts of Te Ao Mana seeks to bring change to address those needs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tatou Festival is the first and only large scale Pacific Island festival in New York City that is created by and for Ta'ata Moana Nui (Pacific Islanders). The week-long event celebrates traditional Pacific Islander cultural heritage and artistic innovation. The festival offers numerous opportunity for both Pacific Islanders to reconnect and ground themselves in their ancestral roots, and gives opportunities for New York City to learn about the islanders traditional and contemporary culture through master classes, film screenings, artistic talks, showcases, performances, and dance contests. It is the only event of its kind in New York City and the US east coast region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.5%; rating input score 99
- 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: 4.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 12; 12th 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: 65.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.