Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Arkansas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710712905
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fayetteville, AR, USA
- Phone
- 4795759696
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,046,340
- Expenses
- $3,201,427
- Assets
- $5,851,372
- Liabilities
- $1,019,665
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wheeler Ashley (Co-President)
- Steele Tyler (Co-President)
- Fulcher Jesse (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Wheeler Ashley (Co-President): $130,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. HFH Northwest Arkansas adheres to a strict non-proselytizing policy and will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must
What it reported doing in 2024
HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAM Families in need of a decent home build safe/affordable homes in partnership with us. Habitat houses are modestly sized, still large enough for the homeowner familys needs, but keeping construction and maintenance costs affordable. We use volunteer labor and prospective homeowners, employ efficient building methods, keep house sizes modest, use donated construction materials/appliances and issue non-profit loans, making houses afforable for low-income families to purchase. Affordable homeownership frees families from instability, stress and fear and encourages self-reliance and confidence. Studies show strong/stable households are foundational to child development and growth. When a home fosters-not hinders- health and safety, families flourish. Affordable homes also allows homeowners to lift up their entire family by saving for their futures and investing in educational opportunities, bolstering job opportunities and career growth. During the fiscal year 2025, Habitat Northwest Arkansas served 89 families through its long-term homeownership program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 72.2%; rating input score 72; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 77.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 18 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.