Kuleana Ka Aina

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
332439729
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Pearl City, HI, USA
Phone
8083981057
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Erik Yoshimoto (Vice President)
  • Elsworth Kaanaana (President)

People named in this filing

  • Alex Wong (Treasury)
  • Erik Yoshimoto (Vice President)
  • Elsworth Kaanaana (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Kuleana ka 'Aina is a nonprofit organization advancing food independence and community resilience in Hawai'i through sustainable agriculture, cultural education, and youth development. We are developing a farmers market food store to expand local food access, support Native Hawaiian producers, and generate community-based economic opportunity. All programs are rooted in 'aina-based learning and traditional stewardship.

What it reported doing in 2024

We held workshops for local producers regarding soil biology, tissue culture, farming, infrastructure, topology and consultation.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.