Hawaii Asia Pacific Association (Hapa)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202170157
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8085257768
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,000
- Expenses
- $133,305
- Assets
- $162,267
- Liabilities
- $98,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- ROBERT HARRISON (CHAIRMAN)
- KENT K TSUKAMOTO (DIRECTOR/TRE)
- ERIC YEAMAN (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
The mission of the Hawaii asia pacific association (hapa) is to organize opportunities for its members to participate in experiences that will promote cultural, economic, and business education and foster international commerce in the asia pacific region.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing members the opportunity for the promotion of cultural, economic and business ties with various asia pacific countries. Each hapa event includes a rigorous schedule of activities, including business meetings with religious and political leaders, factory tours, and interactions with country specific business leaders. Members also learn the values of different asian cultures through site visits and experiences, becoming students of different asian cultural and culinary practices and touring areas of historic significance. Each activity emphasizes an aspect of enhancing members' knowledge of the various cultures and intertwined business practices within the asia pacific region. Through hapa, its members are able to then utilize and share the knowledge gained from their experiences with the rest of Hawaii. Additionally, hapa works together with the Hawaii visitors bureau to assist it in any way necessary to enhance and promote Hawaii's tourism industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -534.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.