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VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA
VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,191 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($516,460). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $295k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $871k
- Net assets
- $390k
What Voices of Pacific Island Nations - Vpin Fetu Taiala does
Mission
Voices of pacific island nations (vopin) is committed to inspiring pasefika students and families by providing high-quality responsive services and resources to address educational and opportunity inequities. We serve as a bridge to develop stronger relationships between students, schools, families and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Vopin operated the following programs in 2024:(I) navigating education:in 2024, vopin continued a moa (memorandum of understanding) with bremerton school district to provide mentoring and tutoring services at bremerton high school. Under vopin's youth and young adult services, besides our mentoring/tutoring services, the 'student internship' project was established to prepare and promote pacific islander (pi) high school graduates and college students on their journey to a successful career path. The internship project is sesigned to provide an opportunity for pi students with practical experience to grow professionally and plan for a successful career path. The project also includes structured learning, giving students experience iwth the responsibility for meeting timelines, making decisions, and working with others - all skills needed for success in the workplace. It also allows students to apply the four r's - rigor, relevance, relationships, and results! The student internship project provides tuition assistance and/or compensation for participants. This internship project is not associated with or part of any federal or state student financial assistance programs and is a…
$392,732 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $392,732.
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 2022 to 2023, from $262k to $529k (+102%).
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: 2022 22% · 2023 16% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $70k → $505k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA’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
VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 71% · 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA: 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 VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA?
- VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,191 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($516,460). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $871,191 in grants to VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $516,460 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOICES OF PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS - VPIN FETU TAIALA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 8 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