Helping Hands Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 352389066
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2011–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Florence, AL, USA
Phone: 2567688056
Rating: 81
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue: $3,878
Expenses: $18,021
Assets: $0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

BETTY BURDINE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

BETTY BURDINE (PRESIDENT)
SARA REED (SECRETARY/TR)
ROBERTA MCKINNEY (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote and advance the objectives and purposes of non-revenue generating programs of north Alabama medical center (a regional facility in florence, Alabama). To provide volunteer services and non revenue producing equipment and other items needed for the departmental support of hospitals in the shoals area. To support with funds and volunteers other 501(c)3 organizations in the area.

What it reported doing in 2025

To provide volunteer services and non revenue producing equipment and other items needed for the departmental support of hospitals in the shoals area, and to support other 501(c)3 organizations in the area.

Operating model

Revenue model: Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model: Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 96
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 9
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -364.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 4 filed schedules
Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
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.

High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.