Hawaii Association for College Admission Counseling
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990266791
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8087349399
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,714
- Expenses
- $166,442
- Assets
- $185,522
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEI ANN HAAS (PAST PRESIDENT)
- SHELDON TAWATA (PAST PRESIDENT)
- SHAUNA PIMENTEL-MOTOOKA (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHANIE WALSH (PRESIDENT ELECT)
People named in this filing
- LEI ANN HAAS (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER BAUM (SECRETARY)
- LISA HIYASHI (PAST TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To establish, develop, maintain high professional standards that foster ethical and social responsibility among those involved in the process of planning for post-secondary education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sponsor college fairs and annual conferences on oahu and the neighbor islands to help students transition to post-secondary education. Hacac held its fall and spring college fairs. 2,663 and 1,747 registrants participated in the fall and spring fairs, respectively. In addition, the annual conference is a free event for members which included a general membership meeting as well as professional development sessions and social events. This event brought together 171 high school and college counselors for professional development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for grants.
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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.