Hui O Koolaupoko
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261760086
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kailua, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8082204266
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,871
- Expenses
- $159,644
- Assets
- $289,815
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jenna Masters (President)
- Traven Apiki (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jeff Harris (Trustee)
- Jenna Masters (President)
- Traven Apiki (Vice 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
Hui o ko'olauipoko's mission is to protect ocean health by restoring the aina (land). Hui o ko'olaupoko accomplishes this by educating the public about non-point source pollution, restoration projects and scientific data collection.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hui o ko'olaupoko works with volunteers who dedicate their time to restore and maintain restoration projects sites and works with various public/private landowners and agencies to restore the land back to its native ecosystem. Watershed restoration activities including: land clearing and weeding to remove invasive plant species, replanting with native vegetation, erosion control practices. Hui o ko'olaupoko also provides technical consultation and training including such activities as watershed planning, water quality monitoring, low-impact design storm water management solutions, green infrastructures, and on-the-ground restoration management.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 54.7%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -56.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 86.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.7% of revenue deployed · 54.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.