HELPIS Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453306365
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Burlington, MA, USA
Phone
7814729720
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$192,492
Expenses
$186,944
Assets
$35,432
Liabilities
$1,500

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Joyce Deliyiannis (President)
  • Emily Trask (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Joyce Deliyiannis (President)
  • Emily Trask (Vice President)
  • Luann Arsenault (Clerk)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of HELPIS, Inc. is: 1) To encourage and promote good and charitable deeds by groups and individuals for the purpose of helping someone needing help, and2) To create the first observation of HelpMeHelpSomeone celebration, a spirit of sharing during May giving help and saluting those who promote generosity and kindness.

What it reported doing in 2024

We established an account for The Month of May Scholarship fund. Scholarships for continuing education will be awarded to young adults who have been in Foster Care or homeless shelters and who are sponsored and referred to us through organizations such as Boys and Girls Clubs. In addition to the scholarships, we are working with numerous homeless shelters in the Boston area to provide a range of items needed by the families and individual being served by these organizations.We provide food, clothing , school supplies, and other items as requested by our partners.Boston Medical Center for the Homeless is one of the organizations we are helping.We are working with Foster Care organizations and agencies to provide help to the children served.Last we were created Welcome Bags for children going into Foster Care and delivered several hundred.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $184K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.