Puna Rising Ohana
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992781172
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Pahoa, HI, USA
- Phone
- 9174473700
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,296
- Expenses
- $71,004
- Assets
- $19,492
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Golden (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Maria Sherow (Treasurer)
- Robert Golden (Executive 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
Puna Rising Ohana's mission is to connect, inform, and inspire the people of Puna to work together collaboratively, to identify markets for their goods and services, to explore new opportunities and to build a stronger and robust community ethos. We envision ourselves as the 21st century commons that engages and uplifts all members of the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Moveable Feast - A series of economic, social, and cultural resilience events and workshops designed to promote community connection, skill-building, and resource access.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 63.4%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 63.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.