Helms Hope Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842404091
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
2144542079
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cancer

Reported finances

Revenue
$73,374
Expenses
$94,077
Assets
$163,737
Liabilities
$624

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHAWN C HELMS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • SHAWN C HELMS (PRESIDENT)
  • MISTY HELMS (SECRETARY)
  • BRITTANY WILSON (COO)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Helms hope foundation will offer education and training programs to individuals in order to provide education on how to identify skin cancer at an early stage and measures to take to reduce the risk.

What it reported doing in 2024

Helms hope continued expanding its make sun safety a snap initiative, providing free access to top-of-the-line sunscreen machines in high-traffic outdoor spaces. Theprogram promotes awareness and prevention of skin cancer by making sun protection easy, effective, and accessible. In 2024, helms hope funded and deployed four snap sunscreen machines that collectively provide free sunscreen to approximately 100,000 people each year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -28.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.74; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 44.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.