Mohala Farms

Analysis

Mohala Farms is a registered charity in United States, based in Waialua, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mohala Farms reported income of $89k and spending of $125k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $306k to $89k (-71%), an average of -34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mohala Farms sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Take Flight Survivors Inc ($89k), Greater Rochester Area Partnership for the Elderly Inc ($89k) and LBCF Properties Foundation ($89k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.8% and program service revenue 58% of the total. At year end it held assets of $215k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $195k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.