Hidden Truths Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 901900692
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $132,793
- Expenses
- $50,142
- Assets
- $181,791
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Julie Thompson-Dobkin (President)
- Heidi Meireles (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Julie Thompson-Dobkin (President)
- Heidi Meireles (Vice President)
- Lance Dumas (Tresurer)
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
Education and Arts
What it reported doing in 2025
Art of Epilepsy: Chicago. Using art and to engage and empower individuals with visible and invisible disabilities associated with epilepsy. Art of Epilepsy: Newport Beach. Using art and to engage and empower individuals with visible and invisible. All costs of running the charity.
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 81% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.2%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 32.2%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.63; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.2% of revenue deployed · 32.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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 12/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.