Hawaii Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (HASCD)

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990217726
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Honolulu, HI, USA
Phone
8082651984
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,450,295
Expenses
$1,004,867
Assets
$1,070,151
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jensen Ball (Executive Director)
  • Faith Washburn (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jensen Ball (Executive Director)
  • Faith Washburn (President)
  • Namji Steinemann (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Hawaii Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development HASCD strengthens teaching and learning to support the success of all K-12 learners in Hawaii by fostering educator growth developing student leadership promoting public discussion of key education issues and facilitating communication among educators and education administrative professionals. This work is carried out through conferences and workshops both in person and online.

What it reported doing in 2025

During the 2025 tax year July 1 2025 to June 30 2026 HASCD organized and delivered 17 additional professional learning and student leadership opportunities led by nationally recognized educators. Nearly 3,000 teachers administrators clerical staff and student leaders participated in these conferences leadership workshops and skills-building online seminars that combined instruction with networking to strengthen teaching learning and leadership across Hawaiis K12 schools. Other program expenses included a student leadership conference a Disney Institute and a professional development webinar focused on using data to drive school improvement. While these programs were held in June 2025 some related invoices were received and paid for in July 2025. The organization also incurred pre-summit expenses during this tax year for an AI in Education Summit that took place in July 2026. Additionally the organization incurred expenses for program event insurance event promotion information technology P.O. box fees and postage program-related travel including attending required parent organization meetings other office and administrative costs and books and other curriculum materials purchased for conference participants.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 30.7%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $115K reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.