The Reorganized Olowalu Cultural Reserve Dba Kipuka Olowalu
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371979808
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lahaina, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8082839419
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $193,904
- Expenses
- $231,301
- Assets
- $53,064
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cole Kainoa Horcajo (President)
- Edwin R N Lindsey III (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Cole Kainoa Horcajo (President)
- Edwin R N Lindsey III (Vice President)
- Makayla Richmond (Secretary)
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
To hold and manage, as a public cultural reserve, land in Olowalu, Maui, to perpetuate the traditional and customary practices of Kanaka Maoli, the native people of the Hawaiian Islands, and promote opportunities to regain the spiritual connection with our ancestors through the practice of hanai'aina to ensure these beliefs and customs are passed down to future generations.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Kipuka Olowalu engaged a total of 2050 volunteers in land restoration and environmental education programs. Participants included local and out-of-state schools, youth programs, corporate retreats, community members, and visitors. Activities included invasive plants removal, native species plantings, canoe crop cultivation, and stream habitat restoration work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -51.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.