Waialua Robotics
Legal name: Friends of Waialua Robotics
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811144400
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Waipahu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8087812228
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $256,670
- Expenses
- $250,757
- Assets
- $203,542
- Liabilities
- $51,524
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLENN LEE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GLENN LEE (PRESIDENT): $26,632 total reported compensation
- SEAN LUNASCO (VICE PRESIDE): $16,534 total reported compensation
- LINDA SOUZA (TREASURER): $7,534 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Team 359 strives to transform the culture of our diverse and historically underserved rural community by providing and preparing students to compete and succeed in post-secondary STEM Education opportunities. Team 359 aims to spread the message of FIRST with a global vision, impacting as many individuals, teams, and programs as possible.
What it reported doing in 2024
Participation in robotics competitions
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 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 69.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $175K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $27K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.