The Orphans Hands Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474457291
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Clinton, TN, USA
- Phone
- 3348660069
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,171,938
- Expenses
- $2,338,739
- Assets
- $3,495,730
- Liabilities
- $477,981
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Philip D Cameron (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Philip D Cameron (President): $197,526 total reported compensation
- Philip A Cameron (Director): $80,150 total reported compensation
- Andrew W Cameron (Director): $71,814 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.
What it reported doing in 2025
In Moldova and Ukraine, we provide housing for orphaned young men and women and fulfill their basic daily needs, education, and care. The participants in our program voluntarily engage in weekly outreach missions to serve the homeless, orphans, and vulnerable families and communities. They offer essential supplies such as food, clothing, and firewood while sharing Jesus's love.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 61
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $198K · 9 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.