Greater Honeycomb Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474673881
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Sagaponack, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122529332
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,130
- Expenses
- $38,284
- Assets
- $168,538
- Liabilities
- $131,637
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH APELLES (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH APELLES (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- PHILIP APELLES (SECRETARY & TREASURER)
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
The organization intends to operate as a charitable foundation by holding, investing and administering assets recieved as charitable gifts, bequests and contributions and using assets or the income to make grants and other distributions to support activities and projects of organizations operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes, including, but not limited to activities related to raising awareness regarding genocide and issues affecting and/or related to women and girls, poverty, individual health and wellness and the environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Greater honeycomb inc. ( https://greaterhoneycomb.org/) serves two purposes today: we aim to help patients with rare diseases uncover what is wrong with them, and then fund the associated research organization to find cures. Please see: https://honeycombhealth.store/. Secondly, we aim to stop the horrific conditions that breeding dogs face in puppy mills. This is a billion dollar business. Please see: https://honeypaws.org.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.8%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 98.5%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.4%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.4; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.8% of revenue deployed · 98.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.