Hawaii Workforce Pipeline Inc

Overview

Mission

Hawaii workforce pipeline inc provides students with opportunities to explore careers through activities like career fairs, internships, job shadowing, and apprenticeships. They also host guest speakers and career awareness events to connect students with industry professionals and showcase high-demand career pathways. These initiatives help students gain practical skills, industry insights, and real-world experiences to prepare for successful futures.

What it reported doing in 2024

Hawai'i workforce pipeline (hwp) partners with hawai'i public schools and local industry leaders to design and deliver an impactful work-based learning (wbl) program that prepares k-12 students for real-world career pathways. Through direct collaboration with educators, administrators, and businesses, hwp develops and coordinates student internships (in-person and virtual), teacher externships, guest speaker series, industry-led training, career fairs, and site visits. These initiatives foster career awareness, exploration, and readiness across diverse sectors. Hwp also supports professional development for educators and integrates innovative tools and protocols, such as student interest assessments and internship platforms, to personalize learning experiences. Currently serving the windward and honolulu school districts, hwp's intermediary services align with hawai'i doe's priorities for college and career readiness, and are tailored to reflect local workforce trends and community needs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851664697
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
Headquarters
Kailua, HI, USA
Phone
8085574804
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.7%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $48.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 43.7%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 42.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 58.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.7% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $269K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • RACHAEL KEAOUHIKANE'ALEI AQUINO (VICE PRESIDE): $65,643 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER SAGON-TAEZA (DIRECTOR): $64,792 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.