Hidden Road Initiative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472052737
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Fresno, CA, USA
Phone
6508158681
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$110,831
Expenses
$106,609
Assets
$127,556

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Nanor Balabanian (Director)
  • Maria Serobyan (Scholar Service Program Coordinator)
  • Lilit Manukyan (Accountant)

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 Hidden Road Initiative (HRI) is a charitable non-profit organization that aims to provide educational and leadership opportunities for students living in remote villages in Armenia through annual educational summer camps, scholarship opportunities, and development projects.

What it reported doing in 2025

Online English Classes - HRI's Online English Program reaches students from the border villages of Armenia and Artsakh who are excited to learn English! In weekly sessions between our students and volunteer English tutors from around the world, we foster a close relationship between mentors and students and continuously work to create a safe community for everyone in our program. Currently, our program boasts over 115 students from 23 villages in Armenia and Artsakh, who are paired one-on-one with over 80 tutors. This approach allows teachers to adequately address the students' skill level and ensure progression. The Cambridge English curriculum is used during the lessons. In these weekly classes, a unique relationship is established between our students and volunteers abroad as we collectively promote a virtual English learning opportunity.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 42%; rating input score 42
  • Program expense ratio: 43.6%; rating input score 44

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: 3.8%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 42% of revenue deployed · 43.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.