Holistic Honu Wellness Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201846091
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9164160491
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,677
- Expenses
- $100,778
- Assets
- $871
- Liabilities
- $2,737
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Leslie Susan Ko (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Jenny Lynn Kidder (Animal Services Lead)
- Jasan Shawn Winship Senior (Secretary-Treasurer)
- Leslie Susan Ko (Executive Director)
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
The Holistic Honu Wellness Center preserves and promotes Native Hawaiian culture through traditional healing arts, cultural education, and community wellness programs. The organization provides culturally grounded healthcare services, traditional healing education, and outreach programs designed to improve health literacy, increase access to care, and preserve Indigenous knowledge for diverse and underserved communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Veterans Health and Wellness Program In 2025, the Holistic Honu Wellness Center provided culturally grounded healthcare services to veterans through medical massage and integrative wellness programs. A total of 79 individual veterans received prescribed therapeutic massage services through Veterans Administration referrals, with each veteran receiving up to 12 treatments lasting approximately 60 to 90 minutes per session. The clinic received $90 per treatment while comparable clinic rates are approximately $140 per hour, increasing access to care for underserved veterans. Additionally, 59 veterans received five complimentary massage and culturally appropriate healthcare treatments to support continuity of care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.9%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 46.2%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.14; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.9% of revenue deployed · 46.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.