Health Education Is Power
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824848118
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- West Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8437540215
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,000
- Expenses
- $1,049
- Assets
- $1,924
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elliot Kronsberg (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Elliot Kronsberg (CEO)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our organization's primary purpose is to provide sanitary supplies (such as soap, face masks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and hand sanitizer) as well as food (granola bars, canned food, apple sauce, etc.) and water to unhoused individuals in the Los Angeles area. We have operated throughout Los Angeles in the last 5 years, starting in Westwood and moving to North Hollywood, and three different locations within Hollywood-moving to wherever unhoused encampments are popping up. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we noticed how unhoused individuals were more susceptible to the infection and we having more trouble meeting their most basic needs relating to hygiene, food, and water, so we shifted to focusing on these essentials, upping our distribution from 10-15 people served each week to anywhere from 20-40 people, depending on our supplies and the number of people on the street at a given time.
What it reported doing in 2023
In 2022, we served upwards of 1000 packages of food and/or water distributed over roughly 50 weeks of distribution. Each week varied from about 20 people served to almost 40, with most weeks settling at 25-30. We also served in 3 different areas because of frequent encampment sweeps (meaning the eviction of the people we served, which led us to move to areas with active encampments and unhoused people needing supplies).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -4.9%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -36.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 254.5% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.