Home of Guiding Hands Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 956058273
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6199382864
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,546,263
- Expenses
- $34,697,810
- Assets
- $44,766,620
- Liabilities
- $11,500,272
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAM MCGOVERN (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- CINDI HARRIS (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- EDWARD HERSHEY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- EDWARD HERSHEY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $345,354 total reported compensation
- LIANE WILSON (VP OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES): $201,767 total reported compensation
- FALON LESZCZYNSKI (VP OF SUPPORT SERVICES): $187,129 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the lives of those we serve by providing the highest quality person centered services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Early childhood development: provides supportive therapeutic and early intervention for approximately 400 children ages 0 to 3 and their families. The children are at risk for developmental delays or who may be diagnosed with a developmental disability. Credentialed teachers provide 1:1 services in a child's home or other natural environment benefiting cognitive and physical development; speech and language development; social and emotional development; adaptive development and behavior management. The early childhood development services (ecds) program includes an infant development assessment (ida) program, which assess potential participants of the ecds program. The ida program provided services to over 1,000 children ages 0-3 during the fiscal year. There are also "parent play" groups benefiting parents and children in a nurturing setting. (san diego and imperial valley).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 7.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.5% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $29.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $345K · 19 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.