Guide Dogs of Hawaii Adaptive AIDS Canines & Advocacy for the Blind

Analysis

Guide Dogs of Hawaii Adaptive AIDS Canines & Advocacy for the Blind is a registered charity in United States, based in Honolulu, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1957, 69 years ago. 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, Guide Dogs of Hawaii Adaptive AIDS Canines & Advocacy for the Blind reported income of $674k and spending of $720k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $716k to $674k (-5.8%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Guide Dogs of Hawaii Adaptive AIDS Canines & Advocacy for the Blind sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Kingsville Volunteer Fire Company ($674k), Community Solutions of Eastern Iowa ($674k) and Holstein Foundation Inc ($674k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% and program service revenue 0.6% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $280k. It paid $28k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $390k against liabilities of $110k, net assets of $280k. It reported 9 employees.

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.