Hands on Peru
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463954080
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Cary, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9194348072
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $256,156
- Expenses
- $188,338
- Assets
- $258,143
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Katie Baric (Cofounder Executive Director)
- Rosa Brem (Cofounder and President)
Highest reported compensation
- Katie Baric (Cofounder Executive Director): $12,900 total reported compensation
- Rosa Brem (Cofounder and President): $10,000 total reported compensation
- Renzo Aguilar Bravo (Chief Financial Officer): $7,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hands on Peru HOP is a 501c 3 nonprofit with an international commitment to improving access to public health and preventive health services and quality health education for disempowered and marginalized communities in Peru. HOP serves as an educational platform for students around the world to give them hands on opportunities to engage in community public health interventions molding the next generation of public health professionals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Public health and preventive health services for the local community that include: physical therapy dental medicine ultrasound psychology nutrition childhood development sexual & reproductive health education in high schools.
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 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $161K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $13K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.