Helping Hands Youth Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842413491
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Cottonport, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3183599725
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,511
- Expenses
- $142,278
- Assets
- $135,320
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kathi Lachney (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Kathi Lachney (Executive Director)
- Taylor Lemoine (Chairman)
- Jessica Ponthieux (Officer)
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
The primary exempt purpose of Helping Hands Youth Center is to provide underprivileged children and their families with the necessities they need to live safe, healthy, and comfortable lives. This purpose is accomplished by providing items such as clothing, food, health literature, and monetary support as needed.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Foster Care Closet provides free items to children in the custody of the State of Louisiana. These items include clothing, linens, hygiene products, food, toys, etc. This program served approximately ten foster families in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.8%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 64%; rating input score 64
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 52.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.8% of revenue deployed · 64% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.