Hr-4u Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882275565
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Newburgh, NY, USA
Phone
6783677220
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Employment N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,584
Expenses
$20,358
Assets
$6,782
Liabilities
$490

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KYLIE VAN LUYN (PRESIDENT)
  • CANDICE VAN DERTHOLEN (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • RONALD CHASON FOREHAND (FOUNDER/ED)
  • KYLIE VAN LUYN (PRESIDENT)
  • CANDICE VAN DERTHOLEN (VICE PRESIDENT)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We empower change-driven companies and their leaders to advocate for and uplift their employees with living wages, worth, and wellbeing.

What it reported doing in 2025

Advocacy: developing employer & leader partners has been moved under the main focus of advocacy versus being their own programs. In 2025, we had 2532 conversations with employers via podcasts, live broadcasts, virtual calls, and in-person meetings to discuss the importance of advocating for employees, especially regarding supplying living wage employment. We also increased our advocates to 120 partners in 10 countries. Our time2change podcast reached the top 47 spot over 2k nonprofit podcasts, and has 4 times reached the top 100 charts of all business podcasts (over 15k). Our reach on youtube has grown to 3300 subscribers with a total of 572k views and we added our audio files to all of the major podcast platforms for season 7 to increase total views on all platforms to 1.2m views. Our allies4good newsletter has reached a total viewership of 730 subscribers with a 75% average open rate which is double the industry standard. People want ot know what we are doing and follow our progress intently. The home page of our website had 527k unique visitors.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $61.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 83.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.