Hawaii · Nonprofit
ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES
ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,361,000 to it, the largest being STUPSKI FOUNDATION ($686,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $-334607
What Elepaio Social Services does
Mission
The mission of `Elepaio Social Services is to provide communities with coordinated culturally proficient social services in a manner that promotes community self-direction and self-sufficiency, with a goal of establishing health and economic equity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
`Elepaio Social Services (ess), is a wholly owned nonprofit corporation of the waianae district comprehensive health and hospital board, inc., that functions as a counterpart to the waianae coast comprehensive health center (wcchc) in providing much needed social services to the economically disadvantaged community of waianae and surrounding communities located on the west coast of the island of oahu in the state of hawaii. Established in november 2020, ess has worked alongside wcchc in responding to the critical community need for access to vital wrap around social services and food.although `Elepaio Social Services was established in 2020, the aforementioned services were being provided under the health center for years prior. These services were quickly ramped up in response to community need.approximately 50,000 people live in the region and are impacted as follows: - nutrition related disparities: the waianae coast population ranks the highest for debilitating health conditions such as diabetes and obesity. - food insecurity. - over 65% of the health center's patients live at or below the federal poverty level. Supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) and food…
$2,296,719 spent$654,477 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,296,719.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $975k to $1.9M (+92%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 11% · 2024 31% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Alicia Higa
Executive director
Board chair
Charles Hew-Len
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $35k → $136k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Waianae Distr Comprehensive Health &). These are real filings, and they are not money ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES raised.
From the IRS filings of ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$884k
- Federal Communications Commission$350k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Waianae District Comprehensive Health & Hospital Board Inc · exempt
- Nanakuli Community Development LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES?
- ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,361,000 to it, the largest being STUPSKI FOUNDATION ($686,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,361,000 in grants to ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES?
- STUPSKI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $686,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing