Santa's Helping Hands Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823198277
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bee Spring, KY, USA
- Phone
- 2709912972
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,921
- Expenses
- $53,124
- Assets
- $189,212
- Liabilities
- $8,080
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARK WARDLOW (PRINCIPAL DI)
- JEFF RICH (DIRECTOR)
- MARK RICH (DIRECTOR)
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
Santa's helping hands, inc. Was exclusively formed for charitable, religious, literary, scientific and educational purposes as set forth in section 501 (c)(3) of the internal revenue code. This organization helps families and others who are less fortunate during desperate times of need.
What it reported doing in 2025
Assist and provide clothing, shoes, coats, toys, books, supplies, etc for underprivileged children in the local area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 67% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.2%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.56; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.