New Hampshire Outright
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020470822
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Portsmouth, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6035525824
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $950,141
- Expenses
- $518,201
- Assets
- $1,060,664
- Liabilities
- $14,487
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Heidi Carrington-Heath (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Heidi Carrington-Heath (Executive Director): $78,890 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create a safe space for youth to explore topics of gender and sexuality in a welcoming and understanding environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 was a banner year for NH Outright. We expanded from one youth group in 2024 to four total youth groups in 2025. That number continues to grow. We served over 400 young people across the state (about a 33% increase from the previous year). Community spaces for joy, safety, and support for our young people remain at the heartbeat of our work. In 2025, we trained over 1000 individuals via our outreach and education programs, and concluded a two-year program training 400 clinicians in our mental health training work. Our flagship fundraising and community event, Portsmouth Pride, broke yet another attendance record, and continued to grow. Our staff team grew to a total of five full-time employees, one part-time employee, and one seasonal position. Our staff and organization were nominated for multiple accolades, including being named the Luminary Organization of the Year by the NH Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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 voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.9%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 45.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.9% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $380K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $79K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.