Friends of Casa - Hawaii

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263599945
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Waipahu, HI, USA
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,928
Expenses
$58,255
Assets
$86,796

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBIN KENNEDY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ROBIN KENNEDY (PRESIDENT)
  • KEONI VAUGHN (VICE PRESIDE)
  • EMILY KAUWE (DIRECTOR)

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

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

Overview

Mission

We are an organization of volunteers that commit to staying with a foster child until the child is placed in a safe, permanent home.

What it reported doing in 2025

Ticket to dream - providing opportunities for 25 young people, ages 16-21, to receive a drivers education and ultimately get their drivers license. Senior experience - seeks to promote normalcy, increase the childs sense of belonging and encouraging academic excellence and pursuing higher education/vocational arena by supplementing the current enrichment funds with additional funds to assist with participation fees and costs. Holiday celebration - all foster children assigned to the casa program receive an age-appropriate holiday gift. The program hosts a gifting blitz in december to fill the stocking of the children. The bridges project - seek to (1) continue positive activities for a children when they return home from foster care; (2) assist parents with the transition period to a successful reunification, by relieving economic stressors. Funds are available to help support children in their chosen activity for up to 6 months after reunification. Career program - children who participated were taught about careers and budgeting. Each participating child received a bank account with 50

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.2%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.