Hug Your Head Foundation
Legal name: Hug Your Head Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871762168
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Scottsdale, Arizona, US
- Phone
- 4806628613
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,000
- Expenses
- $2,315
- Assets
- $6,170
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lukas Daniel Karlsson (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Lukas Daniel Karlsson (Executive Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hug Your Head Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by Traumatic Brain Injury. Through education, community, and advocacy, we build bridges between survivors, families, healthcare providers, and researchers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hug Your Head livestream informational session for twenty TBI survivors and family members. The session raised awareness and increased the knowledge of its members and the public about the importance of protecting the head from injury.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -131.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.67; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 58.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.