Hanahauoli School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990074143
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8089496461
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,529,992
- Expenses
- $9,447,717
- Assets
- $43,338,708
- Liabilities
- $965,001
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREGORY M SATO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LIA WOO (HEAD OF SCHO): $310,219 total reported compensation
- LEAH B ABBE BLOEM (TEACHER): $139,110 total reported compensation
- LAUREN OKANO (TEACHER): $137,386 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our school is dedicated to educational excellence by making learning exciting, challenging, and enjoyable by validating children's interests and the way children learn as a foundation for life-long learning. We are committed to learning by doing; integrating the essential skills and concepts of the basic disciplines; promoting critical and creative thinking; emphasizing the importance of the arts as an expression of self and culture. Our learning environment also integrates school life with the home and world, and encourages partnerships within the community. The hanahauoli child develops as a unique individual, with a deep sense of groundedness, demonstrated by a respect and responsibility to self and others, within a diverse, changing and global society.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operated an unaffiliated independent elementary school in honolulu, Hawaii. Approximately 231 children served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.6%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.59; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $310K · 28 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.