Help Exists

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932679424
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Columbus, OH, USA
Phone
2136103549
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Counseling, Support Groups

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,968
Expenses
$101,089
Assets
$30,721
Liabilities
$5,842

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FREIDEL KUSHMAN (PRESIDENT/SE)
  • WILL RANDLE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • FREIDEL KUSHMAN (PRESIDENT/SE)
  • WILL RANDLE (PRESIDENT)
  • NURIT MIA HIRSH (SECRETARY/CH)

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

We are people sharing kindness, compassion, love, and friendship for all of our suffering, loneliness, isolation, trauma, torture, and extreme experiences. We help ourselves and others attain agency, clarity, equity, connection, and peace. Help exists to eliminate the causes of disconnection, enmity, and invisibility; and benefit people from all conditions including extremes, horror, obscenity, war, and abuse. To eliminate obstructions to community and harmony, we wish to include and make visible people from all conditions together.

What it reported doing in 2024

Emergency hardship program - bill pay: help exists helps torture survivors to pay for trauma therapy, physical therapy, rent, medical bills, and other bills associated with their recovery from torture. - direct cash grants: help exists gives cash grants to people in recovery from torture who are in conditions of emergency hardship. Cash grant recipients also work one-on-one with the program director towards attaining better life conditions and personal goals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73

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: -1.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 58.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.