Americanhelper Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260737633
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128191288
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,817
- Expenses
- $94,313
- Assets
- $54,119
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- James Wenzel (Treasurer and Secretary)
- David Griffith (Director)
- Patrick Hearn (Chairman)
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
AmerICANHELPer was founded to provide for the needs of orphaned and abandoned children in the Philippines. Funding is provided for residential shelters, schooling and medical expenses incurred in their care. Since 2022 grants have also been provided to help homeless and medically needy individuals in the United States.
What it reported doing in 2024
Children's Garden is licensed by the Department of Social Welfare as a Residential Care facility providing housing and supplemental education to boys who had been living on the streets of Metro Manila. Many have been deemed to be In crisis with the Law and without facilities like Children's Garden they would be housed in the overcrowded municipal jails. Teachers and Social Workers working with Children's Garden enabled 17 of these boys to move up to the next grade level in Primary school and helped 7 boys complete Secondary school this past year. Many of the resident boys begin training in life skills and vocational skills while being mainstreamed into their primary grades in Public School. Having access to teachers, a library and classroom within Children's Garden allows most of the boys to catch up to their age group peers and graduate close to on-time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 97.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.