Rotary Club of Hilo Bay Hawaii USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990263986
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Hilo, HI, USA
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,702
- Expenses
- $63,946
- Assets
- $19,756
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steven Sylvester (President)
People named in this filing
- Steven Sylvester (President)
- Janell Kuamoo (Treasurer)
- Bryan Lindsey (VP)
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
Activities are organized primarily to promote community welfare and civic engagement through volunteer service fundraising and collaborative service projects
What it reported doing in 2024
One notable accomplishment of the Rotary Club of Hilo Bays RYLA Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program is providing Hawaii Island youth with hands-on leadership development opportunities that build confidence communication skills teamwork and community engagement. Through participation in RYLA students gain mentorship leadership training and meaningful connections that empower them to become future leaders within their schools and communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.1%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 26.4%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.6%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; 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: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -33.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.1% of revenue deployed · 26.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.