Hygiene4all
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843785530
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9712362524
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $527,154
- Expenses
- $539,021
- Assets
- $597,830
- Liabilities
- $3,641
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ZACK HART (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- SANDRA COMSTOCK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SANDRA COMSTOCK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $60,398 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hygiene4all (h4a) works to ensure our houseless neighbors have an equal voice in creating more equitable access to the basic public resources required for human dignity, including water, sewer, and waste management services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hygiene & sanitation: across 2025, despite losing most public funding in the middle of the year, hygiene4all (h4a) served 1000+ more patrons than the previous year. Not only did we provide significantly more lifesaving showers, first aid, hygiene, & clothing supplies and medical referrals than the previous year, we increased pounds of clothing and bedding recycled from the streets from 11,000 to 14,000 pounds (dry weight). Continued on schedule o. We achieved increases in services and resource distribution to our most vulnerable by welcoming 5,117 visitors to the hub, offered 3,403 showers, served 2,325 unique individuals, provided 4,612 visitors with clothing and/or bedding, offered toilet access to thousands during and outside hub hours of operation, and afforded 1,297 visitors with a place to drop off dirty clothing. H4a also rescued over 14,000 pounds of discarded clothing and bedding in collaboration with ground score association (dry weight), washing and redistributing reclaimed items to patrons and affinity organizations, and keeping out of the landfill! These efforts allowed us to recycle and redistribute an astonishing 13,530 items of clothing to hub patrons and 5 other affinity organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $67.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -2.3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $468K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.