Hypaccess Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873781023
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6507738069
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,103,067
- Expenses
- $436,909
- Assets
- $822,997
- Liabilities
- $56,056
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AUDRE WIRTANEN (PRESIDENT/CO-CHAIR)
Highest reported compensation
- AUDRE WIRTANEN (PRESIDENT/CO-CHAIR): $50,055 total reported compensation
- LAURA L TUTHALL (TREASURER AND SECRETARY (BEG 9/24)): $40,997 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hyp+access is a patient-led nonprofit by and for people with connective tissue disorders and overlapping conditions including hypermobility spectrum disorders, dysautonomia, mast cell disorders, long covid, fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalomyelitis, and more. Our mission is care access and justice for all "hyps," a shorthand term we use to describe people with these co-occurring complex, chronic conditions & disabilities. We build and launch groundbreaking models of care to make current systems more liveable and accountable, all while building a community movement, changing narratives, and saving lives. Hyp+access seeks to transform the us health care system by serving one of the largest & most overlooked clinical populations in modern times, offering holistic solutions to complex problems.
What it reported doing in 2024
2025 programs included: free online teach-ins for the public, sliding scale and free digital courses for patients and practitioners, other free community education including a resource-based website, internal research processes, and the development of infrastructure for our medical and alternative program, hyp+care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.8%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $84.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 59% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 83.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 87% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.8% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $306K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.