Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS
HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $416 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($416). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $416
- Net assets
- $78k
What Hawaii Tax Help and Financial Empowerment Solutions does
Mission
To build individual wealth and stronger communities by (1) providing free tax assistance to low-to-moderate income Hawaii residents in conjunction with the IRS' Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program which enables taxpayers to save money while complying with their tax obligations and (2) providing educational workshops and materials to the general public relating to financial literacy with a focus on preventing tax-related debt.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
This non-profit was established in April of 2016 to provide a dedicated platform for a VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) Program that had been operating as a program under another non-profit since 2006. Since 2006 and as of Tax Season 2025, our VITA Program has prepared 65,675 federal and state tax returns for Hawaii residents saving them approximately $16.4 Million in tax preparation fees and helping them claim $138.8 Million in refunds and refundable tax credits. Program service expenses listed include only direct program expenses and not general expenses for the organization such as insurance costs, fees or bookkeeping software.
$129,366 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $129,366.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4k to $80k (+1899%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Susan Tamanaha
President/CEO and Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $114 → $82.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $473k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$473k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS?
- HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $416 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($416). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $416 in grants to HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $416 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII TAX HELP AND FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing