Workers Against The Recidivism Rate (WATRRS GROUP)
Legal name: Worker Against the Recidivism Rates
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993895916
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Waianae, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8086739606
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Delinquency Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keline Kahau (Chief Executive)
People named in this filing
- Keline Kahau (Chief Executive)
- John Penitani (Board Member)
- Iokua Spencer (Public Relations)
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
Workers Against The Recidivism Rate (WATRRS GROUP) tackles the recidivism rate by addressing the root causes from both ends of life. We are dedicated to educating and empowering youth, transforming them into leaders and productive members of society. Our goal is to cultivate role models who will inspire and guide other at-risk youth, fostering a community of resilience and positive change
What it reported doing in 2024
We have been able to gain trust with the at-risk youth and their families, and we have supported them through volunteering in the community, at the beach, park clean-ups. We have helped youth be able to get their birth certificates, SSN cards, and their state ID to enter the workforce. We also inspired the at-risk youth to re-enter school and help them see that the way they are living is only short-term and to think of long-term goals. The success of the outcome is that the kids have walked away from the gang and the life of crime. They now have set goals to finish high school and go on to college, and still work. Some who have taken their GED and dropped out of school and gotten jobs, and are now trying to create their own business. We are now going into other low-income housing and reaching out to the youth and taking them on field trips to the beach and doing things with them to show that there are people who actually care for them and want to see them succeed. Some of our youth need medical care, and we have gotten them medical care, and now they are getting treatment for their mental health. We take food for them to feed their families to help with cost within their home, so that they are not forced into crime. This has been working for over a year now.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 55
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- 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 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.