The Hepatitis C Mentor and Support Group Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274155461
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
9176122731
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Diseases of Specific Organs

Reported finances

Revenue
$181,567
Expenses
$155,318
Assets
$467,466
Liabilities
$3,842

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RHONA MARKS (Executive Dir.)
  • SCOTT SUCKOW (Chairman)
  • CARL DEDDENS (SECY / TREAS)

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

The Hepatitis C Mentor and Support Group (HCMSG) was founded to address the lack of education awareness, support, and services for people living with Hepatitis C, including patients Co-infected with other conditions such as HCV/HIV, and patients in need of or living with liver transplants. To address these needs, we provide resources and services to foster the development and operation of successful support groups for Hepatitis C and Co-infected patients. These services are provided to prospective and current support group facilitators free of charge. We also provide one-on-one mentoring services to Hepatitis C and liver transplant patients. Right now, a revolution in the treatment of Hepatitis C is underway. New generation (DAA's) direct-acting antivirals have recently become available, and an even more promising new class of drugs are in development and testing. These drugs offer the promise of a cure for individual patients, and the ability to stem an emerging healthcare crisis for

What it reported doing in 2025

The Hepatitis C Mentor and Support Group, Inc. addresses the lack of education and supportive services for anyone affected by HCV and/or living with HIV/HCV. We provide resources and services to community-based organizations, hospitals, clinics, syringe exchange programs and OPCs . HCMSG offers training and educational programs to enhance the degree to which patients, healthcare providers and community based service providers can manage and treat. Because syndemics are interconnected, education and harm reduction services on substance use and connection to infectious disease are more important than ever. Addressing risk factors and providing testing. Treatment and cure can prevent people running the chance of getting Liver Cancer.For the past 16 years, HCMSG has brought much needed education and supportive services to one of the countrys most diverse patient populations, including those living with HIV/HCV, substance use communities, the LGBTQIA+ and TGNCNBI communities, adolescents young adults, women of child-bearing age and Baby Boomers. To date, HCMSG has trained over 1,000 facilitators, who have in turn touched tens of thousands of lives across the United States. HCMSG has filled a niche and therefore continues to expand our programs. We stay in contact with our sites and attendees. We follow up through the use of our tele-support program. We have established The Circle model in sites nationwide, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Hawaii, CT, California and New York as we continue to expand.Our services are provided on site in person or via Zoom. We continue to offer these services in New York and Nationwide.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 39
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36.7%; rating input score 37
  • Program expense ratio: 43%; rating input score 43

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: 14.5%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36.7% of revenue deployed · 43% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 37/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.