Helping Hands Project Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843913395
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Everett, WA, US
- Phone
- +1 (425) 760-8306
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,817,181
- Expenses
- $1,569,350
- Assets
- $3,487,151
- Liabilities
- $959,612
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT CUSHING (PRESIDENT)
- VIVIAN OBAH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- VIVIAN OBAH (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $224,864 total reported compensation
- SHERI WALLER (LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL W): $151,396 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empower and elevate the lives of the most underserved by providing resources and access to programs that ensure an equitable opportunity for success.
What it reported doing in 2025
Helping hands project organization is a licensed outpatient behavioral health facility that offers a wide range of behavioral health services for clients of all ages with a focus on homeless seniors over the age of 60 years old. Services provided include case management, intensive outpatient program and expanded community services, homeless support and supported housing, medical services, substance use disorder, eviction rental assistance, food assistance, housing navigation assistance, crime victims services, rapid assistance program to families in need, and crisis intervention program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 13.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.22; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $225K · 7 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.