Helping Women Help Themselves Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461516617
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Vista, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4807661074
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,662
- Expenses
- $42,469
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE MCCLOSKEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOE MCCLOSKEY (PRESIDENT)
- DEBBY MCCLOSKEY (SECRETARY)
- JAN CETTI (TREASURER)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping women help themselves (hwht) was created to provide individuals with the necessary education to help them successfully own and operate their own small business. Education is provided through local seminars and the organization's complimentary business manual. Most importantly, hwht also provides on-going business support to individuals after they attend one of their educational seminars. The on-going business support includes one-on-one consultations on a wide range of business topics and basic graphic arts services. All services provided by hwht are at no charge to the individual. The only request to the individual is to "pay it forward" to others.
What it reported doing in 2018
Provides business seminars in san diego county focused on teaching how to operate a small business and follow up those seminars with ongoing business support for those attendees that require it.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 72% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -537.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -51.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2014 to 2018
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.