Austin Helps Honduras
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742942848
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,906
- Expenses
- $106,668
- Assets
- $71,333
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Scott (president)
- Edward R Rathgeber (vice president)
People named in this filing
- John Ellett (chairman)
- Glen and Alfrieda Anderson (co-chairs of scholarship committee)
- Steve Scott (president)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Austin Helps Honduras supports scholarships for children and young adults living in several low-income colonias in Juticalpa Honduras. Following devastation from Hurricane Mitch in Central Honduras in 1998 that left thousands homeless AHH helped build infrastructure for Colonia Solidaridad housing water system electricity sewer system school building in 1999-2000 and hundreds of hurricane refugees moved into the new community. After construction projects wrapped up in 2000 AHH segued into scholarship support for the communitys children. In 2020 AHH added support for students in neighboring colonias and continued support for older teens as they aspired to attend local universities and trade schools. In 2022 AHH added support for students in Juticalpa commercial truck driver certification program.
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholarships for 57 students to attend middle school high school university and post-graduate programs; vocational school including tailor auto motorcycle mechanic and cosmetology programs; tutoring; teacher training; school supplies; and tuition support for 60 students in Juticalpa commercial truck driver licensing certification classes. Amount includes Honduran agent.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.