Healing Hope Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812069424
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Alcester, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6059342525
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,772
- Expenses
- $191,472
- Assets
- $386,106
- Liabilities
- $368,232
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENNY ALLEN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KARRI ALLEN (SECRETARY): $62,480 total reported compensation
- DENNY ALLEN (PRESIDENT): $43,350 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping families find hope after the loss of a child at any age, to any cause of death.
What it reported doing in 2025
Helping families who have faced the death of a child.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.7%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $91.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.95; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 55.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.7% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.