Giving Hope & Help

Legal name: Giving Hope & Help Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472005923
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Lee's Summit, MO, US
Phone
(816) 607-1813
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Personal Social Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$430,442
Expenses
$497,062
Assets
$198,460
Liabilities
$11,113

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jessica L McClellan (Founder and President (non-voting))

Highest reported compensation

  • Jessica L McClellan (Founder and President (non-voting)): $108,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Giving Hope & Help is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that supports domestic violence survivors, provides essential resources to end period poverty, empowers college bound and non-traditional students and inspires cancer patients, lifting all those we serve to live their best life.

What it reported doing in 2024

Giving Hope and Help, Inc. was launched in honor of Founder and President Jessica L. McClellan's Thanksgiving birthday. The inaugural Thanksgiving Birthday marked the beginning of the organization's mission with the 1st Annual Feminine Hygiene Product Drive, collecting over 5,000 sanitary napkins and tampons to benefit Hope House, a domestic violence shelter with two locations in Jackson County. Since that first initiative, Giving Hope and Help (GH&H) has expanded its reach, now supporting over 30 domestic violence shelters and places of refuge. In 2015, GH&H launched its first annual feminine product drive in Texas, which continued annually through 2019. Throughout the year, GH&H collects period products and packaged children's and women's underwear through partnerships with businesses, organizations, schools, and community members as part of its NO MENSTRUATOR WITHOUT PERIOD PRODUCTS Movement. To date, the organization has partnered with over 200 corporations, nonprofits, churches, and schools to advance its mission. This movement serves domestic violence survivors, natural disaster victims, the homeless community, schools, and women's and girls organizations-providing essential care locally, nationally, and globally. GH&H has also made a global impact in the fight to end period poverty, shipping feminine products to 19 countries and counting. Since 2017, GH&H has supported over 350 girls in Limuru, Kenya, providing period products and girls' underwear. In 2024 alone, the organization received 130,486 period products and 33,186 hygiene and toiletry items, and distributed 164,471 period products along with 22,667 hygiene and toiletry items. To date, Giving Hope and Help has positively impacted more than 55,000 women and girls across the globe-empowering lives, restoring dignity, and ending period poverty.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 65% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -15.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 59.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $383K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 46 of 47 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.