Pretty Passionate Hands
Legal name: Pretty Passionate Hands Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862016933
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, US
- Phone
- (317) 737-6435
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,475
- Expenses
- $197,475
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paradise Bradford (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Paradise Bradford (CEO)
- Chandler Jessup (Development Coordinator)
- Kayode Kosmani (Board Memeber)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pretty Passionate Hands Inc. is committed to advocating for, empowering, and supporting teen parents and young families by providing a safe, nonjudgmental environment rooted in mentorship, education, and essential life skills. Our mission is to remove barriers to stability by equipping participants with financial literacy, workforce development opportunities, and access to critical resources that promote long-term economic mobility. Through a continuum of support, we help young parents build strong foundations for themselves and their children—creating pathways toward self-sufficiency, generational stability, and a thriving community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Teen Parent Mentorship & Parenting Education Pretty Passionate Hands Inc. provides mentorship, parenting education, and life-skills training to teen mothers and fathers ages 1218. Through programs such as Nurturing Parenting, A Father in Me, and financial literacy workshops, participants learn infant care, healthy co-parenting, financial responsibility, and goal setting. In 2025, approximately 20 teen parents and their children received support through weekly classes, mentorship, and case management services. The program helps young parents build parenting confidence, improve family stability, and work toward education and employment goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.7%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 30.2%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 30.7% of revenue deployed · 30.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.