Nature Healing Nature
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261080333
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8324238425
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,913
- Expenses
- $26,515
- Assets
- $78,778
- Liabilities
- $1,120
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Illian (President)
People named in this filing
- Mark Illian (President)
- Monika Cikhartova (Secretary)
- Merilyn Fance (Board Member)
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
Nature Healing Nature is a charitable organization. Believing that nature offers solutions to human suffering, NHN aims to help global citizens take ownership for improving their own health and social condition by using lessons and materials offered within their local environment. We fulfill this mission in communities by providing information, education, and facilitating programs on collecting and purifying water, making soap, building latrines, and creating community infrastructures using their local skills and materials found in their local environment at little or no cost.
What it reported doing in 2024
NHN continues to to do outreach in developing communities in the world to provide sustainably water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions for the underserved. We do this while collaborating with local NGOs and village leadership. 2023 projects included water storage and distribution in Kenya, a sanitation project in Peru, a water distribution project in Guatemala, and facilitating a bridges to prosperity project in northern Peru. These activities are servicing over 1000 locals. Projects were carried out both in-country and remotely.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -33.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.97; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 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
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.