The Deputies
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990313841
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8088394796
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,968
- Expenses
- $26,538
- Assets
- $135,294
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRYAN LUKE (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- RICHANNE LAM (VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- BRYAN LUKE (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- RICHANNE LAM (VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
- JEROME ANDRADE (TREASURER/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
Education
What it reported doing in 2025
The deputies provides scholarships to explorer scouts, police & fire fighters interested in furthering their education. The deputies also help provide funding for the honolulu police department law enforment explorer programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.8%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 49.5%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.1; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.8% of revenue deployed · 49.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.