Hawaii Families as Allies

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990303182
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023
Location
Aiea, HI, USA
Phone
8087974050
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$425,050
Expenses
$490,212
Assets
$168,931
Liabilities
$53,581

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CURTIS YEE (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHANELLE LUM (EXECUTIVE DI): $77,554 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To strengthen families who have children with serious emotional/behavioral challenges through development of support networks in local communities and provide advocacy, voice and education to the community at large concerning the needs of families with children who have serious emotional/behavioral challenges.

What it reported doing in 2023

Office of youth services (juvenile justice wraparound): Hawaii families as allies(hfaa)provides parent partner support services to families who have youth that are involved with or at risk for involvement with the juvenile justice system. This includes youth that are at the juvenile detention center and the Hawaii youth correctional facility. Parent partners work with families to understand the juvenile justice system, develop a plan of care while adjudicated and a corresponding transitional plan back into the community, identifying natural supports and resources are among the activities that hfaa parent partners provide. Hfaa is also part of a three-member wraparound team that helps to build a support system for youth and their families while they are adjudicated or institutionalized. Hfaa has served more than 418 families in a two-year period. Samsha (statewide family networks): Hawaii families as allies (hfaa) is the recipient of a grant from the subsistence abuse mental health services administration (samsha)as part of a larger core of family fund organizations across the nation who are making a difference in their communities. We are responsible to further dedicate our community, influencing various stakeholders and other organizations about keeping children's mental health and related services and supports top of mind. We inform and educate families about available resources to learn more about their child's diagnosis, participate on stateside and local communities to change our perspective about children's mental health and importance of access to care. To date hfaa has services about 5776 families and served on 7 different committees/wprkgroups in a year. The service is statewide. Community service board of middle Georgia: Hawaii families as allies (hfaa) provides training, workforce guidance and technical assistance to the state of Georgia's mc3 programs which focuses on providing authentic peer support to families who have children with mid-level diagnosis. To date, hfaa has trained 80 peers and collaborates with 5 different behavioral health organizations to ensure the peer support workforce is trained and well supported with practice implementation tools. Department of health and human services temporary assistance for needy families state of Hawaii department of health city and county of honolulu

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 99% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $391K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Governance controls: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.