Hawaii · Nonprofit
LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER
LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,199 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center does
Mission
La faalauaiteleina le faitau ma le tusitusi I le gagana samoa mo fanau. Increase literacy in the samoan language for our youth and understand the samoan culture to build a samoan identity
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
1. Served more than 200 volunteer hours totaling in 2015 2. Developed more than 10 partnerships and networks for the samoan community3. Developed samoan language learning resources, educational materials via a curriculum, built teaching resources and materials, established a training module for samoan language teachers, and developed samoan language assessments.4. Offered outreach support to other states such as alaska, california, seattle, utah,texas, arizona and 1 us teritory.5. Opened another samoan language site in waianae, hi & kalihi hi.6. Built and strengthened our social media hub which connected many people around the world to lfslc7. Trained more than 10 teachers and teacher assistants on how to teach samoan language 11. Through lfslc facebook page, able to reached more than 20,000 people in the world.12. Developed a copyright system for lfslc to protect its products and resources.13. Developed a system of how to develop a aoga samoa concept for hawaii samoan community14. Developed partnerships with post secondary education systems such as the university of hawaii, manoa, auckland university of technology and chaminade university.15. Offered community workshop
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $39.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199 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
LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,573 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
Organizations like LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER
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In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER: 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 LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER?
- LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER (Hawaii) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,199 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,199 in grants to LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER?
- COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LE FETUAO SAMOAN LANGUAGE CENTER 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3 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