Helping House of Grand Rapids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844350609
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6166354842
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection Against Abuse
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,461
- Expenses
- $5,461
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dorothy Link (President and CEO)
People named in this filing
- Dorothy Link (President and CEO)
- William Larzelere (Board Treasurer)
- Amie Kolenda (Board secretary)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping House provides assistance to survivors of trauma, connecting them to appropriate community services, providing transportation, and walking alongside them to help them thrive. HHGR provides safe spaces and positive engagement for survivors of trauma and their loved ones. HHGR promotes positive messaging around trauma through social media engagement
What it reported doing in 2023
Helping House served dozens of individuals/families in West Michigan in 2023, providing trauma informed information, guidance for survivor services, and direct support through community referrals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 24%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 65%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 87% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24% of revenue deployed · 24% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K 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: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 24/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.