Higher Education & Life Planning Service Corp Aka H E L P S Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 261593298
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2021–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location: Compton, CA, USA
Phone: 4243660541
Rating: 62
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue: $5,239
Expenses: $967
Assets: $4,272

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

GAZELLA KIRK (President)

People named in this filing

GAZELLA KIRK (President)
DOTTIE TARLETON (Secretary)
LARONYA HINES (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

This organization provides food & housing to women who are released from prison, with nowhere to reside.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided housing utilities and maintenance

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 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 49
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 76
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 18.5%; rating input score 18
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: 81.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.42; rating input score 82; 82nd 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: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -86% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 100% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 18.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $967 in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.