National Help Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933070283
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- South Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8322199778
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,910
- Expenses
- $123,800
- Assets
- $974,220
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN DAMIEN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN DAMIEN (PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA VALDEZ (SECRETARY)
- MARY VERCHIENS (TREASURER)
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
To empower individuals and communities through compassionate assistance by addressing social challenges -mental health education poverty and social inequality
What it reported doing in 2024
The "Future-Ready Youth Training Program" provided career-readiness workshops and digital literacy bootcamps for underserved youth. The program enrolled 45 participants in a 6-week curriculum focused on computer skills resume writing interview preparation and basic financial literacy. Revenue was generated through low-cost registration fees and a partnering school district subsidy. Participant feedback indicated a 90% increase in job application readiness and digital proficiency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 50
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.4%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 53.4%; rating input score 53
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st 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: 25%; rating input score 25; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.87; rating input score 86; 86th 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: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.4% of revenue deployed · 53.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 42 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesProfFundraising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.