Helping Hands for Gand Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475166628
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Huntsville, AL, USA
- Phone
- 8507147379
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,485
- Expenses
- $5,636
- Assets
- $447,312
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER MARTIN (PRESIDENT/DI)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER MARTIN (PRESIDENT/DI)
- TAMMY RUH (VP/DIRECTOR)
- KRISTEN MCCONNELL (SECRETARY/DI)
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
Helping hands for gand, inc. Was formed to promote and increase community awareness of gatad2b-associated neurodevelopmental disorder (gand) and the need for research and development of medical treatments for individuals with gand through the dissemination of information to the general public, to raise funds to support such activities, and to make grants, loans or other distributions for any of the purposes described in section 170(c)(1) or (2)(b) of the internal revenue code.
What it reported doing in 2025
Helping hands for gand hosted the 2025 gand online conference on september 27, 2025. Approximately 100 attendees participated in sessions covering brain health and development, advocacy and special education, and the development and upcoming launch of the gand patient registry. Participants also heard from dr. Tyler pierson, md, phd, and dr. Juan young, phd, both leading gand researchers, who gave overviews of gand, updated the attendees on their research research, and answered questions from the audience. The conference ended with a breakout session for families to connect around a topic of shared interest.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.5%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 44.4%; rating input score 44
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 85.4%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 79.37; rating input score 99; 99th 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: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.5% of revenue deployed · 44.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 6/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.