Healing Hands-Healing Hearts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611405076
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Bakersfield, CA, USA
Phone
6613234440
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Home Health Care

Reported finances

Revenue
$43,213
Expenses
$42,995
Assets
$11,737

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • David Dowdy (President)
  • Brenda Kress (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • David Dowdy (President)
  • Tom Cox (Director)
  • Jeanne Troncao-Heath (Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Healing Hands ~ Healing Hearts seeks to support traditional medical care by providing massage, comfort, and connection for the body, mind and spirit of the critically, chronically and terminally ill.

What it reported doing in 2025

Touch Therapy/Conscious Touch: The Healing Hands ~ Healing Hearts team of therapists work with a clientele facing critical, chronic, and terminal conditions. The core goal is to help bring relief from the pain, isolation, anxiety, and despair suffered by a very special population of people among us. To create a more human connection into their lives by offering many levels of healing to the body, mind, and spirit, in order to restore a client's hope, joy, and dignity.Healing Hands ~ Healing Hearts has been focusing on teaching certification classes in "Touch Therapy / Conscious Touch for the Critically, Chronically, & Terminally Ill, not only to massage therapists, certified nursing aides, and energy workers, but also to any anyone who has the desire to learn a wonderfully proven way to connect with someone using their God-given gift of touch.Healing Hands, Healing Hearts has established the Alfred J. Goularte Veterans Care Program that we may embrace and honor the everyday men and women who have bravely served our great nation in its greatest times of need. It is our goal to provide comfort, care and connection to our veterans who suffer from critically, chronically, and terminally ill conditions including PTSD related disabilities. We embrace a vision of supporting Veterans in their journey, seeking healing on multiple levels as well as offering them training that will help prepare them to be there for each other in ways that sometimes only another Veteran can understand.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.