Hhplift
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460800614
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- Phone
- (312) 226-3345
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,197,650
- Expenses
- $1,286,914
- Assets
- $680,235
- Liabilities
- $1,104,072
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- HELEN ARKES (Secretary)
- MICHAEL ARKES (Chairman)
- LAURI ALPER (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We curate on-trend social impact products crafted by artisans overcoming barriers to fair wage employment and produced by social enterprises that transform lives and lift communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Organization expands markets for global social enterprise partners, and introduces their goods to new channels of distribution. By taking inventory and infusing these organizations with immediate capital, they can provide fair and sustainable wages, valuable services like healthcare, clean water, education, housing, and more for their artisans and crafters, leading to economic independence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $54.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.62; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 67.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $874K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 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.
- 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.
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 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.