Hawaii Tokai International College
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990255042
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kapolei, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8089834120
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,200,704
- Expenses
- $5,110,010
- Assets
- $5,876,125
- Liabilities
- $471,067
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NAOTO YOSHIKAWA (CHANCELLOR/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NAOTO YOSHIKAWA (CHANCELLOR/PRESIDENT): $185,326 total reported compensation
- TAKAHIRO FUJIMURA (VICE CHANCELLOR/CFO): $168,276 total reported compensation
- KUMIKO YABE-DOMINGO (VICE CHANCELLOR): $135,112 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hawaii tokai international college, an accredited american junior college, embraces an educational mission approved by its board of trustees, that is a set of living principles by which faculty, staff, and students strive for educational excellence. The educational mission of htic is the daily guide that fosters our learning community where students, instructors, administrators, and support staff have the opportunity to promote interactive learning in a multicultural environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hawaii tokai international college offered courses to students in the languages, cultures & arts of different countries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.6%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 59.7%; rating input score 60
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.6% of revenue deployed · 59.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $185K · 9 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $486K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.