Lift Hi Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932563664
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Waimanalo, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8085837418
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,093
- Expenses
- $141,792
- Assets
- $96,147
- Liabilities
- $6,788
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER MEEHAN (FOUNDER & PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER MEEHAN (FOUNDER & PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT STILES (DIRECTOR)
- MARIA AURORA AMADA C GLORIA (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
Lift hi foundation (lift hi) invests in the people and families of hawai'i to live stable, healthy and fulfilling lives andthereby allow our local communities to flourish. We believe the foundation to stable, healthy and fulfilling lives is a good job.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lift hi's theory of change is that an investment of tailored training in asset limited, income constrained, employed (alice) individuals and a clear pathway to immediate employment can lead not only to successful training and job outcomes, but also to transformed lives. Unique elements of the program include: 1) proactively recruiting among those overrepresented in the alice data; 2) tailored training that emphasizes not only clinical skill development, but life and career readiness; 3) strong employer partnerships; and 4) post-training mentoring. Lift hi held three trainings in its second year of operations reaching 18 unique individuals, more than 70% of which worked in healthcare as of december 31, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 57
- Growth: 60
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 51.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd 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 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.