Dependable Hands Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272327471
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Toney, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2562887632
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,304
- Expenses
- $9,809
- Assets
- $1,309
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cornellius Osborne (President)
- John Osborne (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Cornellius Osborne (President)
- John Osborne (Vice-President)
- Lulamae Osborne (Chief Financial Officer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Dependable Hands is to meet the needs of the homeless, needy, and less fortunate individuals in our community. We feed the homeless each week and provide a food pantry and clothes closet that is open to all. We provide clothing, blankets, hygiene products, and other basic necessities. As we grow, we plan to provide shelter, training, and education to aide the homeless and needy in getting reestablished in the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, our efforts focused on continuing to feed the homeless and operate the food pantry and clothes closet. Food and other items were purchased from the North Alabama Food Bank and other stores in the community. Some of the food and other items were distributed to the needy in the community via the food pantry and clothes closet. Some of the food was distributed to the homeless and needy when we went out to feed the homeless and serve in the homeless camps. Volunteers staff the food pantry and clothes closet. Volunteers prepared and distributed the food given to the homeless. Nothing was sold throughout this process, so no revenue was gained. Expenses were incurred for the maintenance and upkeep of our local food bank and clothes closet. These expenses were met by the contribution from individuals in the community and the contribution from Dependable Hands' officers. The volunteers also brought and donated prepared food items when we served hot meals to the homeless. This helped to keep the food expenses low. However, as we continue to grow, we anticipate that the food expense will grow as well.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -652.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.