Domestic Violence Action Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990290389
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8085340040
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,537,581
- Expenses
- $4,625,257
- Assets
- $8,160,415
- Liabilities
- $499,307
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID TUMILOWICZ (PRESIDENT)
- UNYONG NAKATA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- REX FUJICHAKU (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MONIQUE IBARRA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- MONIQUE IBARRA (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $140,543 total reported compensation
- PAULINE OHLENDORF-CHUN (VP OF OPERATIONS): $113,440 total reported compensation
- CRISTINA ARIAS (VP OF SURVIVOR SERVICES): $107,079 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
Dvac advocates provide intensive support to survivors of family violence on oahu. In addition to core support (long term advocacy, risk assessments, safety plans) they also provide access to emergency financial assistance and referrals to community resources. Fy 2025, advocates opened 975 cases, closed 607 cases, made 739 court appointment accompaniments, conducted 2741 risk assessments, and completed 2972 safety plans. Dvac staff provided 105 support group sessions for survivors. Supporting housing program for survivors of domestic violence helps to reduce homelessness among oahu survivors of domestic abuse. Both apartments and shared group housing are provided, with a full array of agency services available to support participants in the program. In fy 2025 dvac's supportive housing program served 31 adults and 56 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $49.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 88.6%; rating input score 89; 25th 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.