Kohala Animal Relocation & Education Service
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270575124
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Kamuela, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8083336299
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $264,736
- Expenses
- $278,455
- Assets
- $45,880
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH CRAVATTA (PRESIDENT)
- ELAINE ORENBERG-ANDERSON (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEBORAH CRAVATTA (PRESIDENT)
- ELAINE ORENBERG-ANDERSON (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- MARILYN J GAGEN (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To rescue and relocate abused, abandoned and stray domestic animals, to provide temporary housing for them through kares' foster care network and to facilitate adoptions into caring and permanent homes. Kares seeks to reduce over population by providing free and affordable spay/neuter procedures to companion animals. Kares also provides support to families with pets by assisting with food and veterinary care to ensure that those pets remain in the family and are not surrendered for adoption.
What it reported doing in 2025
Kares focuses on community education to promote responsible pet ownership and to prevent animal cruelty. Kares raises awareness about the causes of animal overpopulation and advocates alternative humane solutions for population control including spay and neuter.kares makes possible affordable or free spay/neuter procedures for companion animals throughout the island of Hawaii. Kares conducts regular pet adoption sessions to promote adoption of rescued animals.kares' efforts serve as a model for achievable animal welfare programs for all communities around the big island of Hawaii. Kares was recognized as a top shelter in the us by mutts across america.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.7%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $199.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $269K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.