2025-10-16T15:18:39-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 834591925 OHANA WAA OHAN 8089414059 2875 Waa Road Lihue HI 96766 Heidi Guth Treasurer 8089414059 2025-10-16 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Dennis Chun 2875 Waa Road Lihue HI 96766 335456 0 X ohanawaahawaii.org X 2019 HI The educational and charitable purposes of Ohana Waa are embedded in our mission to work together to elevate the collective health and life of our Voyaging traditions, and in our vision to ensure our voyaging legacies live on. 18 18 0 1000 0 0 149119 335456 0 0 0 0 0 0 149119 335456 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 99714 154033 99714 154033 49405 181423 154385 314281 21527 0 132858 314281 X The educational and charitable purposes of Ohana Waa are embedded in our mission to work together to elevate the collective health and life of our Voyaging traditions, and in our vision to ensure our voyaging legacies live on. 1 0 13728 13728 0 Capacity Building: During 2024, Ohana Waa continued to hold regular (at least monthly) Zoom meetings among directors, officers and interested parties who live across Hawaii. These regular meetings kept the Hawaii-wide voyaging community connected and inspired. We continued our capacity building focus from 2022, based on the Strategic Plan that we developed in 2023. Our contracted grant coordinator, a logistics coordinator, and a website development and maintenance team kept us on task. We also participated in the annual Ikuwa Festival in Hilo, Hawaii, celebrating voyaging across Hawaii, including filling Hilo Bay with little sailing canoes that are perfect for training all ages of sailors and future voyagers. 93110 93110 0 Lahaina: After the devastating August 2023 wildfires, which destroyed the heart of the Maui's voyaging community in Lahaina, Ohana Waa took in grants and donations specifically to support that voyaging community. As one ohana (family) across all our islands, we have always come together to support the individual canoe communities that make up Ohana Waa when there is need. The support and generosity for our Maui ohana was heart lifting for that community to experience and for all of us to witness. Donations and messages from across the world reminded us that we are not isolated in the middle of the Pacific; the ocean continues to connect us. The funding platform was temporary (only through 2023), with funds used for short-term relief efforts toward the health of the broader Lahaina voyaging community, as that community decided its own direction and where resources should flow. The grants and donations exceeded our hopes, and while must of the funds were expended in 2024, some will continue to be used for Lahaina resident recovery and community building into early 2025. None of these funds went toward administrative costs; they have been and will be all directed to voyaging community members and are provided on a reimbursement basis only, and only up to $5,000 per voyager. For example, the funds were used to help rebuild portions of multi-generational homes, to partial payments for purchases of replacement vehicles, food for families living out of hotel rooms without kitchens, a forklift rental to move pallets of donated supplies, portable toilet rentals, replacement fishing supplies used for sustenance fishing, voyaging canoe repair and replacement engines and trailers, and replacement home supplies. In early 2024, we also supported our Lahaina voyaging community by sailing our large and small voyaging canoes to Lahaina from all of our islands, with our crew and leadership joining the Lahaina Unity March of several thousand people in support of the traditional, multi-ethnic and multi-generational community of Lahaina. The March was organized by an Ohana Waa captain, who lives in Lahaina. 17777 17777 0 Unity among voyaging leadership around the Pacific: In 2024, Ohana Waa continued our cultural exchanges and leadership support for Pacific voyagers. We continued engagement with voyaging leadership by attending and supporting the attendance of significant voyaging events, so that we can continue learn from each other and stay connected, realize synergies, and create opportunities, all of which is best done in person from an indigenous perspective. We also developed makana (cultural gifts) and outreach materials for cultural exchanges, such as banners, table covers, tents, coolers and jugs for traditional provisioning. Specific support was provided for inter-island cross-generational training of crew members and leadership in voyaging and canoe preparation. We began the year by sailing our canoes into Lahaina and joining a Lahaina Unity March with members of the Lahaina, Maui and Hawaii communities. Then, in June, we again sailed in our voyaging canoes from around the islands and flew in voyaging leadership to participate in the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture held in Hawaii. This festival is the world's largest celebration of indigenous Pacific Islanders, and it was the first time it had been held in Hawaii, and it brought indigenous people from more than 20 nations here. Ohana Waa's waa kaulua sailed FestPac leadership into the Opening Ceremony, and members of Ohana Waa participated in FestPac's Waa Community Day, Waa Symposium, and Holomoana (Voyaging) Day. All of these events brought together voyagers, waa elders, and the broader community to experience and engage in activities, presentations, and discussions centered around our rich voyaging history. Next, in the fall, we participated in the Hilo Fill the Bay with small, traditional sailing canoes, including one that was built entirely out of native woods and fibers, and we participated in the annual Ikuwa festival, based on traditional wayfinding, in Hilo's Imiloa Center, which is a member organization of Ohana Waa. 0 0 0 124615 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 18 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 HI X Heidi Guth 8089414059 5849 Kalanianaole Highway Apartment A Honolulu HI 96821 Abraham Ah Hee Director 1 1 X 0 0 0 Damien NK Barcarse Director 1 3 X 0 0 0 Milton G Bertelmann Director 1 3 X 0 0 0 Pomai Bertelman Director 2 3 X 0 0 0 Bruce Blankenfeld Director 0 5 X 0 0 0 Leslie Henani Enos Director 0 2 X 0 0 0 Timothy Gilliom Director 0 5 X 0 0 0 John AP Kruse Director 1 2 X 0 0 0 James A Lyman Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Vernette P Martin Director 1 2 X 0 0 0 Chadd C Paishon Director 1 5 X 0 0 0 William K Richards Director 1 4 X 0 0 0 Paanaakala Tanaka Director 2 5 X 0 0 0 Charles Thompson Director 0 5 X 0 0 0 Dennis J Chun Co-Chair 2 2 X 0 0 0 Jessica AK Fu Co-Chair 1 1 X 0 0 0 Heidi Guth Treasurer 5 3 X 0 0 0 Leslie K Kimura Secretary 1 2 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 335456 0 335456 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 335456 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4712 0 4712 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38065 21136 16929 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1401 0 1401 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33899 33899 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6126 0 6126 0 0 0 0 0 Program supplies and materials 23438 23438 0 0 Reimbursements for voyagers' Lahaina fire losses 25365 25365 0 0 Facilities and Equipment 15777 15777 0 0 Repair and Maintenance 5000 5000 0 0 250 0 250 0 154033 124615 29418 0 128051 301261 0 0 0 0 10000 2811 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16334 10209 154385 314281 0 0 0 0 21527 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21527 0 X 0 0 0 0 132858 314281 132858 314281 154385 314281 181423 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 X 0 0 0 X 5100 150000 0 149119 335456 639675 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5100 150000 0 149119 335456 639675 639675 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 639675 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990, Part III, Line 2 After the completion of Ohana Waa's Strategic Plan, in 2024 the organization continued its path of capacity building, in part by applying for their first federal grant, which will be based entirely on programming, and for a general operations grant from an international indigenous trust funder. We also attracted funding from a Hawaii-based foundation that seeks to support Native Hawaiian initiatives. While we continued to deliver donated funds directing to members of the voyaging community in Lahaina that had experienced major losses in the 2023 Lahaina wildfires, Ohana Waa further expanded our outreach and commitment to the voyaging community across Hawaii and the Pacific by participating in, supporting and documenting international opportunities to collaborate with our voyaging family. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Board Treasurer and Ohana Waa's accountant discussed the 2024 books, and the accountant answered any questions that the Treasurer had about those books before and during the completion of this Form 990. Unfortunately, there was not time this year to provide an opportunity to the full board for review of the completed Form 990 before it needed to be submitted, because the drafter had an unexpected and wonderful opportunity to voyage and needed to turn in the Form 990 a month early. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Board is provided a reporting sheet every year to declare any perceived, potential or real conflicts, and a copy of the Board's Conflict of Interest Policy is provided with the declaration, which must be signed and dated. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Ohana Waa is registered as a public non-profit with the Hawaii State Attorney General's office, which has copies of its founding documents, and its Articles of Incorporation are also available online through a state business registration agency. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Ohana Waa hired the services of a media company to document the voyaging components of the Festival of Pacific Arts; a website company to continue development and refinement of our website; a logistics coordinator for travel to programming, events and meetings; a grants director for a large grant; and reimbursed for the cost of professional photographs after the Lahaina fire. N/A