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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851821009
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Flint Township, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8108758544
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $511,114
- Expenses
- $440,269
- Assets
- $232,650
- Liabilities
- $15,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIARA BLASSINGAME (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CRYSTAL HOUSTON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TIARA BLASSINGAME (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CRYSTAL HOUSTON (PRESIDENT)
- JASMINE BURRELL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to be the Hands of Hope- Serving, Supporting and Uplifing our Community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Super Power Summer Program provides one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, life and coping skills, social and emotional support, goal setting and trauma informed teaching all in an eight 8 weekly sessions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 89% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 5
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.3%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 6
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 1st 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 13.9%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 170.9% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.3% of revenue deployed · 6.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 16 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OtherSalariesAndWages column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.