Hawaii State Rural Health Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990338158
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Hilo, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8084301807
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,543,596
- Expenses
- $2,542,243
- Assets
- $1,641,930
- Liabilities
- $1,546,814
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA RANTZ (PRESIDENT)
- SUMMER MOCHIDA-MEEK (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(FROM 7/24))
Highest reported compensation
- SUMMER MOCHIDA-MEEK (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(FROM 7/24)): $43,833 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 vision for Hawaii is one where every person can enjoy a full and healthy life marked by connection, opportunity, and equity. To that end, we work together fearlessly with partners to champion the networks, policies, and innovations that support the highest quality health care for rural communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Molokai kupuna project - through this project we aim to improve community health for kupuna (elderly, 65 and over) on the island of molokai, post covid-19 pandemic, by providing physical and mental health services, economic sustainability, and other socio-economic and social factors. The program serves over 350 kupuna. The program enhances kupuna's physical and emotional health, improve their mental health, and mitigate isolation through social interaction. Additionally, the program employs contractors to provide kupuna services and offer virtual education. The program's focus is on improving kupuna's health status post-pandemic and addressing long-term care options.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 92% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $88.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 63.5%; rating input score 64; 17th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $44K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.