New York · Nonprofit
TE AO MANA INC
TE AO MANA INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,700 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($35,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Te Ao Mana Inc does
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
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.
$79,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,000.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3k to $6k (+136%).
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.
100% of TE AO MANA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $23k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 TE AO MANA INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
TE AO MANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 TE AO MANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 75% · 2023 66% — 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
65% of TE AO MANA INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
TE AO MANA INC has grown faster 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 TE AO MANA INC
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 New York
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 TE AO MANA INC: 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 TE AO MANA INC?
- TE AO MANA INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,700 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($35,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TE AO MANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $92,700 in grants to TE AO MANA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TE AO MANA INC?
- LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TE AO MANA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 4 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