Heart Sistas Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
874396681
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Phone
7862317704
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Health Support Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$138,567
Expenses
$131,622
Assets
$75,194
Liabilities
$47,840

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HYVELLE FERGUSON DAVIS (FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT)
  • ROSELINE MOISE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JUDITH FERGUSON MISSING (PRESIDENT ELECT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TRAVIS NEFF (SECRETARY): $5,031 total reported compensation
  • ROSELINE MOISE (VICE PRESIDENT): $5,000 total reported compensation
  • BRITTNEY FERGUSON (DIRECTOR): $671 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Heart Sistas inc. is dedicated to improving heart health outcome by providing CPR training, health education, and community outreach programs focused on underserved populations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Heart Sistas Inc. provided heart health education, CPR training, wellness prog, and community outreach to underserved populations including community engagement initaiatives and program-supporting events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 82% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $15.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 64.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 101.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 122.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $116K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.