Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$1,742,544

Total expenses

$2,044,662

Contributions and grants received

$1,246,573

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$495,971

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$975,119

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,315,172

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

-$340,053

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,735,797

Management and general expenses

$308,865

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,735,797

Program services were 84.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• `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. THROUGHOUT THE COVID PANDEMIC, THE WAIANAE COAST EXPERIENCED THE HIGHEST COVID+ RATES AND THE LOWEST COVID IMMUNIZATION RATES IN THE STATE. HIGH POSITIVITY RATES, COUPLED WITH SCHOOL CLOSURES AND LOSS OF INCOME DURING THE SHUTDOWNS RESULTED IN AN EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN FOOD INSECURITY IN AN ALREADY ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED COMMUNITY. HOME TO THE LARGEST POPULATION OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS IN THE WORLD, THE WAIANAE COAST WAS ONCE SELF SUFFICIENT AND THRIVING IN ANCIENT TIMES. LAND AND WATER RESOURCES WERE MANAGED SUSTAINABLY AND PROVIDED AN ABUNDANCE OF FOOD FOR ITS PEOPLE. TODAY, MANY ON THE WAIANAE COAST ARE LIVING IN POVERTY AND FEEL DISEMPOWERED. WESTERNIZATION AND RELIANCE ON IMPORTED FOODS HAVE AMPLIFIED THE DISCONNECTION.TODAY, THE APPROXIMATELY 50,000 PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE REGION ARE ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AND ENDURE POOR OUTCOMES: - NUTRITION RELATED DISPARITIES: THE WAIANAE COAST POPULATION RANKS THE HIGHEST FOR DEBILITATING HEALTH CONDITIONS SUCH AS DIABETES (15%) AND OBESITY (41%). - FOOD INSECURITY WORSENED SIGNIFICANTLY DURING THE PANDEMIC AND DUE TO INFLATION. - OVER 71% OF THE HEALTH CENTER'S PATIENTS LIVE AT OR BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL. - HAWAII IMPORTS MORE THAN 85% OF ITS FOOD, MAKING THE STATE EXTREMELY VULNERABLE TO MIS-MATCHED SUPPLY AND DEMAND.STILL, WAIANAE COMMUNITIES ARE RESILIENT IN THE FACE OF HIGH COST OF LIVING, LOW WAGES AND THE ONGOING IMPACTS OF THE PANDEMIC. WCCHC HAS BEEN SEEKING JUSTICE FOR ITS COMMUNITIES THROUGH INNOVATIVE AND INTEGRATED SERVICES FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS AND NOW THROUGH `ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES, EFFORTS CAN EXPAND, BUILDING ON THE EXISTING STRENGTHS OF THE COMMUNITY AND ADVOCATING FOR ITS HEALTH AND SOCIAL NEEDS.MED-QUEST ENROLLMENT:ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES NAVIGATORS ENROLL COMMUNITY MEMBERS INTO THE STATE'S MED-QUEST PROGRAM, HEALTH INSURANCE THROUGH THE FEDERAL MARKETPLACE AND THE AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM.SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP):THE SNAP PROGRAM IS A FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAM ADMINISTERED TO THE STATES VIA THE FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE AND PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS. FOOD ACCESS:THE SNAP PROGRAM ALLOWS CUSTOMERS TO PURCHASE FRESH LOCAL PRODUCE AND PROTEIN AT REDUCED PRICES AT THE HEALTH CENTER'S FARMER'S MARKET.KEIKI PANTRIES:ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES OPERATES KEIKI PANTRIES AT SCHOOLS ON THE WAIANAE COAST,SERVING 2,300 KEIKI EACH WEEK AND OVER 600,000 HEALTHY SNACKS/LOCAL FRUITS.KUPUNA PANTRIES:IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HAWAII FOODBANK, ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES OPERATES KUPUNA PANTRIES THAT SERVICE OVER 1,000 KUPUNA EACH WEEK WITH FRESH LOCAL ORGANIZE PRODUCE, SHELF STABLE FOODS/OTHER PANTRY ITEMS.

  Expenses $1,735,797 · Revenue $1,742,544

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• WAIANAE DISTRICT COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & HOSPITAL BOARD INC

  501(C)(3) · HEALTH CENTER · HI

• NANAKULI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LLC

  501(C)(3) · HOLD & DEVELOP PROPERTY · HI · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by WAIANAE DISTRICT COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & HOSPITAL BOARD INC

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

9 April 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202530999349301553

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