Hands Across the World Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203813940
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Sherborn, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5086555792
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Surgery Specialties
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,214
- Expenses
- $9,539
- Assets
- $124,681
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD SILVERMAN MD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD SILVERMAN MD (PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTOPHER HUGHES MD (TREASURER)
- HOLLY S PAP (SECRETARY)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Haw groups consisting of doctors, nurses and assistants applying their highly specialized skills to the world's neediest children and their families without regard to where they are located. Haw strives to improve the lives of their patients, allowing them to feel a more productive part of their society or to removing the physical stigmatizes making them ostracized from their community.
What it reported doing in 2023
Haw groups consisting of doctors, nurses and assistants applying their highly specialized skills to the world's neediest children and their families without regard to where they are located. Haw strives to improve the lives of their patients, allowing them to feel a more productive part of their society or to removing the physical stigmatizes making them ostracized from their community. During the current fiscal year 29 medical and support staff traveled to coca in the amazon of ecuador treating approximately 400 patients in total.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and total assets are large relative to annual expenses, but may not be spendable cash. 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: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.07; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10% of revenue deployed · 7.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $700 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.