Hawaii · Nonprofit
PULAMA NA LIKO
PULAMA NA LIKO (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $702 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($702). 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 FY2025
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $702
- Net assets
- $63k
What Pulama Na Liko does
Mission
To promote and support social, physical, and intellectual wellness within our community through education based on Hawaiian and Polynesian culture, values, and traditions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
'Alohi Polynesian Dance Academy is recognized as a prestigious and award-winning Halau Hula (school of Hawaiian dance). The school's foundation is based on Hawaiian cultural education and practice, which later broadened to include cultural knowledge from Polynesia, Tahiti and New Zealand. In May 2025, we collaborated with Keauhou Shopping Center again to provide Hawaiian cultural hands-on workshops and game demonstrations and performances for their May Day celebration. We continued our contracted monthly performances with Keauhou Shopping Center for the year of 2025. Within the year, approximately 750 people attended our performances. Additionally, our 'Alohi Polynesian Dance Academy performing students participated at various private group functions. In May 2025, students aged 13 and up participated in a private performance in a residential home in Puako, as well as another private performance for a graduation celebration. In October 2025, 12 students from 'Alohi Polynesian Dance Academy participated in an educational trip to Oahu to further their understanding of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture, traditions, and values. Educational experiences included visits and tours at Bishop…
$11,876 spentof which $6,700 as grants94% of program spendingLiko Boutique - Our gift items from Liko Boutique serve as a resource for inpisred learning while also assisting people of our local community in living an ideal, healthy lifestyle. Many of our products are also handcrafted by students of 'Alohi Polynesian Dance Academy, which encourages entrepreneurship and other artistic pursuits. Proceeds from our boutique purchases help to kokua (support) the Pulama Na Liko programs and their ongoing education for Hawaii's youth. In 2025, we continued our online storefront and took part in several local craft fairs on Hawaii island. We took part in artisan craft fairs with the Hilton Waikoloa Village, Malama Market (from Oahu), Kona Commons, and Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Our craft fair booths were overseen by two to three volunteers from the 'Alohi Polynesian Dance Academy. Our volunteer students develop social skills by interacting with the public, as well as cashiering skills that will be useful in their future jobs. A few students practiced sewing skills by repurposing old costumes donated by dancers from Alohi Polynesian Dance Academy into new products such as fabric scraps for crafters, keychains, and accessories.
$814 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,690.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $42k to $18k (−57%).
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.
70% of PULAMA NA LIKO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lani Isaacs
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $220 → $187.
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 PULAMA NA LIKO’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 PULAMA NA LIKO'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. $702 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
PULAMA NA LIKO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PULAMA NA LIKO
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
65%
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 PULAMA NA LIKO: 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 PULAMA NA LIKO?
- PULAMA NA LIKO (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $702 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($702). 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 PULAMA NA LIKO have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $702 in grants to PULAMA NA LIKO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PULAMA NA LIKO?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $702 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PULAMA NA LIKO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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