Utopia Pdx United Territories of Pacific Islanders
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822838257
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5038415645
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Lesbian, Gay Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $856,451
- Expenses
- $1,440,875
- Assets
- $107,717
- Liabilities
- $5,820
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAMEO KAHAWAI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KAMEO KAHAWAI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $137,500 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH TUFA (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONAL TRANSFORM): $83,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To restore and reimagine the vital roles of qtpis within our communities and ensure a world that values, nurtures, respects and celebrates qtpis in our navigation of self determination and empowerment
What it reported doing in 2024
Oceania healings / healing transformations: formerly oceania healings, healing transformation is a holistic approach to supporting qtpi individuals, victims, survivors, and their families/support networks through cultural healing practices, resource navigation, and awareness education. Opportunities for healing before western medicine, traditional healing practices throughout oceania sustained pacific islander communities. This program aims to return to traditional healing practices and provide for our community in the areas that western medicine continues to fail. This program will focuses on both, individual and group healing sessions. Individual healing sessions available to resource navigation participants include massage, herbal medicine, and conflict resolution by traditional practitioners. Group healing sessions include food, song, and dance. Resource navigation services participants are supported by staff with lived experience to understand, advocate, and g
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 44.5%; rating input score 44
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -68.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 44.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $641K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.