Miracle of Help USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833685296
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $208,971
- Expenses
- $221,275
- Assets
- $121,641
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RISA GOLD MD (PRESIDENT)
- PATTI MOSS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RISA GOLD MD (PRESIDENT)
- LAUREN OIAZZA-ELIASH (TREASURER)
- PATTI MOSS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Miracle of Help USA Incs primary mission to to build a hospital for women and children in Sierre Leone. MOHs mission is to have our project be a template for future projects to help create healthier and more prosperous communities across rural Sierre Leone.
What it reported doing in 2024
The region of Sierre Leone where MOH is working is primarily a cocoa and rice farming area. Over 2000 rice farmers have approahced MOH to create a fish farm to help integrate tilapia and catfish as a second cash crop into their rice fields. Integrating fish in the rice fileds provides nutrition to the rice, destroys pests, and increases the rice yield. The fish also eat the eggs of the mosquitos that cause malaria which are laid on the standing swamp water. MOH will be tracking the project and local malaria rates weekly and monthly in the pilot villages working on the finsh and rice project. Early in 2024 MOH acquired 3 abandoned professionally dug fish breeding ponds and has started the process of growing tilapia and catfish for release into the farmers fields. The initial project is four ponds in four rice fields. This will expand to 30 ponds as each member of the pilot project digs a pond in their field. If successful, the project will be
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $191.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $212K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.