Hilarity for Charity Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822316072
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
2038831380
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alzheimer's Disease

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,680,684
Expenses
$4,122,468
Assets
$2,960,061
Liabilities
$271,619

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAUREN MILLER ROGEN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BONNIE WATTLES (EXECUTIVE DI): $235,096 total reported compensation
  • ALEXANDRA VILLANO (SENIOR DIREC): $178,376 total reported compensation
  • DIANA MCHUGH (SENIOR DIREC): $153,432 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Through innovative programming, hilarity for charity seeks to raise awareness, inspire change, and significatnly improve the outcomes for family members contending with alzheimer's. We aim to accelerate progress in alzheimer's care and support, provide education to young people about brain health and prevention and bring laughter to those coping with alzheimer's.

What it reported doing in 2024

Caregiver wellness - hfc provides free, educational, interactive, and informative online events throughout the year to support unpaid alzheimer's family caregivers. These virtual events include our carecon, caretertainment, and wellness workshops that cover a range of topics to support caregivers who provide care to a loved one with alzheimer's. All program workshops are designed to educate, inspire, and empower caregivers with the tools they need to be emotionally and physically prepared for the caregiving journey. Youth movement against alzheimer's - ymaa empowers high school and college students to change the trajectory of alzheimer's disease through education, awareness, and collective action. Our aim is to reduce the stigma associated with alzheimer's disease and dementia by promoting disease education, providing opportunities to connect and support those affected by the disease, and inspire a generation of youth to take action to protect their own brain health by learning about and practicing brain healthy habits. Hfcuniverse - hfcu is an innovative learning platform that empowers high school and college students to take action in the fight against alzheimer's. Through hfc's engaging video coursework, students gain essential knowledge about how alzheimer's and dementia affect the brain, the lifestyle choices that can lower risk, and the brain healthy habits that promote lifelong cognitive wellness. By educating the next generation, hfcu helps build a movement of informed young people who are prepared to champion prevention and change the future of brain health. Research, education & culture change - hilarity for charity takes a new approach to fighting alzheimer's disease. Combining education and entertainment, hfc works to educate young people about brain healthy habits and create the next generation of alzheimer's advocates.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 32.9%; rating input score 33; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $235K · 9 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 33/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.