Hawaii Children's Action Network Speaks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464414158
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8085315502
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness & Relief N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,340
- Expenses
- $65,776
- Assets
- $96,501
- Liabilities
- $90,240
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LIZA RYAN GILL (PRESIDENT)
- DEBORAH ZYSMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JASMINE SLOVAK (DIRECTOR)
- ERICA YAMAUCHI (DIRECTOR)
- LIZA RYAN GILL (PRESIDENT)
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 ensure Hawaii's keiki have a bright future by building a powerful movement of families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Media campaigns, public education on early childhood issues, advocacy and political action.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -16.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.