Help Your Neighbor

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921781826
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Zelienople, PA, USA
Phone
7244536200
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$650,096
Expenses
$650,096
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • PASTOR MATT GATES (DIRECTOR)
  • PASTOR CHRIS PALMER (DIRECTOR)
  • PASTOR STEVE MOORE (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

To collect and distribute food, clothing, and household good to those in need

What it reported doing in 2025

Help your neighbor exists to reveal the unconditional love of god through the collection and distribution of food, clothing and household goods. During 2025, the following occurred: - expanded our partnership with greater pittsburgh community food bank by being brought on as an official community partner agency. This has given us greater access to food product (shelf stable and produce) at no cost to us. In addition, we have received over $30,000 in grant funding. We are consistently considered for additional grant funding and streams of resources because of this partnership.- expanded our partnership with world vision, receiving 2 truckloads a month. These donations supplies ministries, individuals and families with clothing and household goods. - fully launched curbside lockers taking help your neighbor from 3 days a week to 7 days to serve our surrounding communities with food, clothing and household items. This has been effective specifically in serving our new castle campus via our mobile team and the campus team. - this year we have blessed 12,365 families and served 82 ministries.- launched a mobile team to serve all 3 campuses. Currently this looks like food, clothing and household furniture pick up and drop off for those who can't get to us. - launched block parties at cranberry campus: we take hyn product and church resources out into the community. -fully furnished spaces for 3 of our local kingdom builder ministries we support

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -44% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -44% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $650K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.