HOW Charities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822461867
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Conshohocken, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4849040121
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,685
- Expenses
- $152,741
- Assets
- $259,166
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY JONAS (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- JEANETTE WOOD (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GARY JONAS (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- JEANETTE WOOD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KATE SIBEL (SECRETARY)
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
To serve the community through charitable initiatives as part of The HOW Group's commitment to doing the right thing and making a positive impact in Philadelphia.
What it reported doing in 2025
Building home, building futures initiative
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 80% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.8%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 28.5%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 31.8% of revenue deployed · 28.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 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 32/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.