Half a Sorrow Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844351506
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Greenville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8037274301
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,744
- Expenses
- $109,594
- Assets
- $51,782
- Liabilities
- $6,107
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENNIS GILLAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DENNIS GILLAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ANNA BELLEW (SECRETARY)
- STERLING TA'BON (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
Our mission is to improve mental health for individuals and organizations by promoting real conversations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Keynote talk: suicide prevention training and presentations designed for gatekeepers who are in a pivotal role to identify areas of need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 65.5%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 65.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.