Hawaii · Nonprofit
I NUI KE AHO
I NUI KE AHO (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,010 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($480,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $536k
- Net assets
- $99k
What I Nui Ke Aho does
Mission
I Nui Ke Aho uses our traditional, double-hulled Hawaiian sailing canoe, Wanana Paoa, on the North Shore of Oahu to provide safety-focused educational programs on and about the canoe. We teach collaboration, the traditional navigator's mindset, pono (honorable and correct) decision-making, and voyaging to youth, families and community members. Our volunteers maintain and care for the canoe under the leadership of an experienced navigator and captain. Practicing mutual respect, they study and teach environmental awareness, Hawaiian cultural values, and the protection and perpetuation of natural and cultural resources through our voyaging canoe Wanana Paoa, Kahokuwelowelo Heiau and our home lands and waters. Mission: As a voyaging organization, we strive to grow a vibrant north shore community that understands, values and enriches its culture, place and people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2023, for I Nui Ke Aho's Waa (voyaging canoe) component of our non-profit, we hosted our Iho No Ka Makau navigation program in the spring and in the fall, using Wanana Paoa as a platform for learning. Iho No Ka Makau is a 7-week program that provides participants an in-depth learning experience of traditional Polynesian Navigation. Captain Worthington shared about celestial navigation, sailing dynamics, kilo (observations of natures elements and the activities of natural resources), weather patterns, canoe maintenance and care, and sailing aboard Wanana Paoa. Each session of Iho No Ka Makau builds upon the last, and the experience is more intimate and specialized to learning a navigator's mindset on a comprehensive level. Participants of this program are invited with the idea that they have the skillset to sail aboard Wanana Paoa in a safe and respectful manner. Throughout Iho No Ka Makau, participants study how traditional kilo is conducted and learn the importance of kilo to crew safety and smooth sailing. Participants also learn about celestial navigation, using the star compass and star gazing. Canoe maintenance is a large part of Iho No Ka Makau sessions so that…
$59,815 spentof which $59,815 as grants60% of program spendingIn 2023, for the Education/Outreach program component, I Nui Ke Aho was happy to be able to host school groups and community members. A total of 189 students participated in 5 school visits, and their activities included sailing aboard Wanana Paoa, learning about navigation (kilo, star compass, traditional stories of special places on the North Shore of Oahu, waa maintenance, knot tying and lashing of the canoe (how the canoe is held together). We had 233 volunteers supply 1692 volunteer hours through 46 engagements. We hosted volunteer days at Kahokuwelowelo and Maeaea. These volunteer days are held twice a month throughout the year, and each day participants conduct kilo (environmental observations) to determine whether it would be safe to sail. We work on our canoe, Wanana Paoa, and if the weather is favorable, we sail in Waialua Bay and nearby waters. Also, we collaborated with other North Shore nonprofit organizations, sharing about each of our organizations. As usual, we came together to educate our community about the unique places in our section of Oahu and how we can better care for them. In 2023, we had the opportunity to host our funding partners and collaborate with…
$39,983 spentof which $39,983 as grants40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $99,798.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $123k to $232k (+89%).
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.
99% of I NUI KE AHO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Manavaroa Darius Kamaki Worthington
Chair and President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $102k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 I NUI KE AHO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
I NUI KE AHO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund I NUI KE AHO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 89% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
92% of I NUI KE AHO's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60 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
I NUI KE AHO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like I NUI KE AHO
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for I NUI KE AHO: 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 I NUI KE AHO?
- I NUI KE AHO (Hawaii) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,010 to it, the largest being TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS ($480,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does I NUI KE AHO have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $536,010 in grants to I NUI KE AHO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of I NUI KE AHO?
- TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP DBA KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $480,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like I NUI KE AHO 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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