Harpers Home Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932282831
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Durham, NC, USA
Phone
9196100049
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$242,696
Expenses
$120,694
Assets
$265,381
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Heather Hindin (Executive Director, Principal Officer)

Highest reported compensation

  • Heather Hindin (Executive Director, Principal Officer): $58,245 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Harper's Home provides free, short-term housing in Durham, North Carolina for families with a child receiving treatment at Duke Children's Hospital. Through fully furnished private residences, the organization enables families to remain together close to care, reducing the financial and logistical burden of extended medical treatment and supporting timely access to critical services.

What it reported doing in 2025

Harper's Home launched its West Maynard Housing Program in 2025 to provide free, short-term housing in fully furnished private homes for families with a child receiving treatment at Duke Children's Hospital. Families are referred through hospital social workers and travel more than 40 miles for care, often requiring multi-week stays. From September through December 2025, the program served three families and provided 222 nights of housing at no cost. Each home includes two bedrooms, a full kitchen, and living space, allowing families to remain together in a stable, private environment during treatment. The program supports timely access to care and reduces the financial and logistical burden of extended medical stays.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 37
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 35.8%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 72%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $27.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 50.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.2; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 48.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 88.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 89.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 35.8% of revenue deployed · 72% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.