Helping Hand of South Whidbey

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911259405
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Freeland, WA, USA
Phone
3602217777
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$111,399
Expenses
$88,482
Assets
$136,791
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KEITH SORENSEN (PRESIDENT)
  • JIM CRAFT (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JUDY KENNING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • KEITH SORENSEN (PRESIDENT)
  • CATHY HAGAN (SECRETARY)
  • LYNNE HOSSFIELD (TREASURER)

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

Help community members survive

What it reported doing in 2024

Made small grants to community members who may have difficulty meeting basic needs such as rent and utilities. In 2023, 523 persons served to pay rent, electricity, propane, etc. A total of $76,356 was spent on meeting those needs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 68
  • 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: 20.6%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 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.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.