Helping Hands Housing Inc C/o Kathy Wilson
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200888865
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Carthage, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4174393601
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $227,510
- Expenses
- $132,533
- Assets
- $126,430
- Liabilities
- $19,479
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL WERMUTH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CAROLYN K WILSON (DIRECTOR)
- DANIEL WERMUTH (PRESIDENT)
- CHARLES BENTLAGE (VICE-PRESIDE)
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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping hands housing, inc. Provides its services via hope house ministries and the hope chest thrift store. Hope housing ministries is a recovery residence that provides a department of corrections accepted reentry mentoring program. The organization is proactive in its dedication to reducing recidivism and enhancing community safety. The organization is committed to assisting the women offenders enrolled in its program in first stabilizing their lives upon release from incarceration and then aiding them in achieving self-sufficiency. Once basic needs are secured, self- sufficiency is primarily gained through exploring enhanced job possibilities, finding additional opportunities for skills training through hope chest thrift store, identifying local educational opportunities and establishing permanent housing. In addition, and equally as important, are the efforts in supporting improved mental health, encouraging self- confidence through "modeling", and providing ways and means to self
What it reported doing in 2013
Helping hands housing, inc. Provides its services via hope house ministries and the hope chest thrift store. Hope housing ministries is a recovery residence that provides a department of corrections accepted reentry mentoring program. The organization is proactive in its dedication to reducing recidivism and enhancing community safety. The organization is committed to assisting the women offenders enrolled in its program in first stabilizing their lives upon release from incarceration and then aiding them in achieving self-sufficiency. Once basic needs are secured, self- sufficiency is primarily gained through exploring enhanced job possibilities, finding additional opportunities for skills training through hope chest thrift store, identifying local educational opportunities and establishing permanent housing. In addition, and equally as important, are the efforts in supporting improved mental health, encouraging self- confidence through "modeling", and providing ways and means to self empowerment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 92% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.5%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.7%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 103.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.5% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $115K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.