Sustainable Molokai
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273261673
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Kaunakakai, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8085605410
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,019,386
- Expenses
- $2,392,344
- Assets
- $2,788,543
- Liabilities
- $185,656
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATT YAMASHITA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TEHANI KAALEKAHI (EXECUTIVE DI): $123,240 total reported compensation
- JAMIE RONZELLO (PRGM. DIR. T): $108,301 total reported compensation
- SHANNA WILLING (FIN. DIR. SI): $38,255 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sustainable molokai is a community development organization committed to restoring aina momona (thriving people and abundant land) to molokai by uniting traditional practices with responsible, modern sustainable solutions. Current programs focus on strengthening food security and sovereignty, energy resilience, and environmental and natural resource conservation on molokai.
What it reported doing in 2024
Food hub & sustainability center - umeke ai o molokai. Umeke ai o molokai aims to be a community and resiliency center on the island of molokai. This facility would be a permanent food hub and food bank, working with other agencies on island, to serve the entire molokai community and become the headquarters for sustainable molokai.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 72.3%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $85.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43% of revenue deployed · 72.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.