Partners in Development Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943271325
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8085952752
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,076,725
- Expenses
- $26,215,098
- Assets
- $17,467,235
- Liabilities
- $7,982,703
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHAWN KANA'IAUPUNI (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SHAWN KANA'IAUPUNI (PRESIDENT/CEO): $251,617 total reported compensation
- LAURA DANG (VP OF ADMINISTRATION): $184,210 total reported compensation
- SUMMER UWONO (CFO): $170,715 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide charitable, educational, literary and scientific services for families and communities using timeless native hawaiian values and traditions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other programs include a comprehensive family literacy program for native hawaiians, a program that recruits, trains, and supports foster families, a community-based residential program for at-risk male youths, an intergenerational native hawaiian mentoring program for at-risk youth on the island of hawai'i, a teacher development program to better serve native hawaiian students on the island of hawai'i, and a natural farming pilot program on 5 acres of hycf land in waimanalo.open arms harbor - isolation/quarantine facility for covid referrals from doh: provide case management and care coordination services within state of Hawaii designated covid-19 temporary quarantine and isolation response site (harbor arms hotel), for an individual who meets the cdc criteria for investigation and testing is pending, also known as person under investigation ("pui") for covid-19, are awaiting covid-19 test results, or who have tested positive for covid-19, and who do not otherwise have access to an area/location to safely quarantine or isolate (collectively referred to as clients or guests, or individually as a client or a guest).kawailoa project to end juvenile incarceration and to replace punitive modalities of treatment with positive culturally rich programs that support justice-involved and opportunity youth. We intend to significantly reduce or eliminate the overrepresentation of our native hawaiian and pacific islander youth in the justice system through innovative actions and partnerships.hui ho'omalu: statewide initiative addressing the identification, recruitment, screening, training and ongoing support and retention of foster/resource families for hawaiian children and families that are in the care of the state of Hawaii department of human services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $55.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.8%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $24.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 15 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.