Hands and Feet of Asheville
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454786627
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Asheville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8285458466
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,888
- Expenses
- $201,289
- Assets
- $42,344
- Liabilities
- $869
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Galia Binder (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Galia Binder (Executive Director)
- Emma Goldrick (Chair)
- Andrea Rosal (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ecumenical service program for young adults, age 18-29, who come to live together in Asheville, NC, each serving different local area nonprofits for 11 months in direct service roles; As an integral part of our program, our community partner nonprofits have the opportunity to build affordable sustainability of their programs or organizations, while mentoring our volunteers and offering real world experience, as they work to help solve community and social justice issues in our city through their service. Hands and Feet of Asheville has historically been an official "Young Adult Volunteer" program site affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s Mission agency, and our participants become integral champions and doers in some of our city's most recognizable community support organizations.
What it reported doing in 2024
In Hands and Feet of Asheville's primary program, serving as the Asheville site of the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s Young Adult Volunteer program, the 2024-25 fiscal year included the last month of hosting 2 young adult volunteers here in Asheville, each engaging in 32 hours per week of service for 9 months (temporarily shorter for one program year), from September 2024 through May 2025, totaling more than 1,152 hours of service in local Asheville nonprofit organizations. Their community impact included project management for affordable housing initiatives through Habitat for Humanity, assisting in facilitating operations for AHOPE day center which serves unhoused individuals in a variety of ways; Haywood Street Congregation which serves meals as well as offering a place of community, conversation, and dignity for unhoused Asheville residents; and supporting Greenworks with sustainability efforts across Asheville.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 64% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.7%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 26.3%; rating input score 26
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: -1.7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.7% of revenue deployed · 26.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 27/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.