Help For Heroes
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812762496
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Lancaster, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6617551657
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,930
- Expenses
- $70,446
- Assets
- $31,181
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christian Scott (President)
People named in this filing
- Christian Scott (President)
- Ricky Jeffords (CFO)
- Amber Satalino (Secretary)
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
To provide mentoring, counseling, and morale boosting to first responders.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization was able to affect 30 indiviuals in the area of mentoring, 7 in the area of counseling where 5 went past the initial intervie stage, and 300 were affected in the area of Morale Boosting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.2%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 20.8%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 84.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.