Handup Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900891521
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Tyler, TX, USA
Phone
9035975334
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,367,830
Expenses
$1,286,652
Assets
$3,052,380
Liabilities
$362,343

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SAMUEL SMITH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • SAMUEL SMITH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $97,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Hand up network (hun) partners in christian love, with churches, businesses, individuals and other nonprofit agencies to assist people with life transitions when going through a tough season.

What it reported doing in 2025

Victim services is a group of trained staff and case workers that assist victims of crime. The team operates 24/7 and can be accessed via a hotline. Often, this is not a short-term response, but the beginning of a long, multi-year journey for many as they begin the judicial/legal and medical journey to recovery and resolution. The victim services team helps the victim manage this process, while also helping them begin the journey to restoration of their lives by referring to our mentoring, immigration or response teams, and organizational partners as needed. This program influenced 180 individuals in 2024 with 2 full-time staff and 1 part-time who provided 6 hours of service.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 61% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 5.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 45.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.