Hioki Creations
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834332872
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tenafly, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2017419852
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Religious Leadership
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,535
- Expenses
- $32,259
- Assets
- $63,379
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nyerere Jones (President)
People named in this filing
- Mel Hioki (Chairman)
- Eugene Kim (Treasurer)
- Nyerere Jones (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To engage and empower children through stories that instill and inspire a sense of purpose. It is our vision to foster kindness, compassion, and openness in the hearts and minds of children, who make the world a more accepting and loving place.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide awareness of diversity and inclusion, hunger awareness and anti bullying.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -31.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.