Transparency


At the heart of community is trust. In our ongoing transformation back to the heart of childhood, we seek to share, to banish secrets, and ascend past our narrow egos. In this open space of sincerity, we are freed to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and body and love our neighbors as ourselves.

Loving God and neighbor are the foundation stones of the Hermitage:

  • offering prayers for people worldwide who have asked for them
  • cleansing toxins from our part of God's sacred Creation
  • providing healthy and nourishing food to the wider community
  • feeding the hungry who struggle to buy wholesome food
  • and offering ourselves to each other as a safe, unselfish place

Farming is expensive, so we defray these costs with nearly 100% of the labor coming from the hermits. We underwrite our annual shortfalls from our monthly Social Security and from our individual savings.

As we have invited our readers and listeners into our lives asking for their assistance, we open our financial records detailing all these things from the time we left Haiti to settle in Polynesia — first as a Franciscan religious community and then as a Hermitage of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia — to the present time.

The picture posted above depicts the Hermitage nuns, Sr. Mary Anne and Sr. Mary Martha, holding an icon of Ss. Cosmas and Damian These third-century saints were known as "the silverless" because they offered their medical practice free of charge to their patients. The Sisters are also "silverless," serving Haiti as Registered Nurses without pay for decades and today. In particular, Sr. Mary Anne developed a small outreach in Southwest Haiti which we became the region's principal medical provider in addition to its ongoing offerings of providing food, clothing, and education.

Please note as you review our financial records that our 501(c)(3) public charity, Franciscan Hermitage Ministries, did not continue into 2020. The IRS requires that at least one-third of a public charity's expenses be supported by public contributions. Perhaps the CDC announcement of a global pandemic (February 25, 2020) cast a pall over work like ours. Our non-profit, certified organic, agricultural ministry is now being carried forward by the Hermitage Farm and staffed by the Sisters and their chaplain.

Form F990s for Tax-exempt Organizations

Fiscal Year 2023

2023 Our Lady of the Angels — F990
2023 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule O
2023 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule L
2023 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule M

Fiscal Year 2022

2022 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990
2022 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule O
2022 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule O, Part VI
2022 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule O, Part VIII
2022 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule O, Part IX
2022 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule L
2022 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule M

Fiscal Year 2021

2021 Our Lady of the Angels — F990
2021 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule O, Part I
2021 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule O, Part X
2021 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule O, Part XI
2021 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule L
2021 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule M

Fiscal Year 2020

2020 Our Lady of the Angels — F990
2020 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule O, Part III
2020 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule O, Part VIII
2020 Our Lady of the Angels — F990 Schedule O, Part IX
2020 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990 Schedule O, Part X
2020 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990 Schedule L
2020 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990 Schedule M

Fiscal Year 2019

2019 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990
2019 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990 Schedule O, Part III
2019 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990 Schedule O, Part VI
2019 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990 Schedule O, Part X
2019 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990 Schedule L
2019 Our Lady of the Angels Hermitage — F990 Schedule M

2019 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990
2019 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule A
2019 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule N
2019 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Articles of Dissolution
2019 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule L
2019 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule O


Fiscal Year 2018

2018 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990
2018 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule L

2018 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990
2018 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule A
2018 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule L
2018 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule O


Fiscal Year 2017

2017 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990
2017 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule A
2017 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule L

2017 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990
2017 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule A
2017 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule L
2017 Franciscan Hermitage Ministries — F990 Schedule O


Fiscal Year 2016

2016 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990
2016 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule L
2016 Na Pua Li'i Hermitage — F990 Schedule I