The Shepherds Hand Community Outreach Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832955898
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Phone
2604242224
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$87,776
Expenses
$63,685
Assets
$90,413
Liabilities
$2,375

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUSAN HEIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DEACONESS JANA PETERS (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • SUSAN HEIN (PRESIDENT)
  • BETH WILLIAMS (TREASURER)

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

Reaching out in the city by caring for the shepherd's people, daring to be the shepherd's hands, and sharing the shepherd's love.

What it reported doing in 2025

The shepherd's hand community outreach center provides community need-based outreach focused on quality health, nutrition, and educational programming. 32 young children and caregivers in fort wayne attended free music classes. 42 people attended education courses on health and nutrition. 30 health and social service organizations partnered with us to host 4 health fairs for the community to learn about valuable health and social service organizations in fort wayne without barriers to access. 1,970 children received supplemental packages of diapers from 35 unique zip codes within and surrounding fort wayne. 117 children received bookbags full of school supplies for the 2025-2026 school year. We continued sharing produce with our community from our community garden. 21 local congregations/rsos partnered with us to further our mission and meet our goals. Mom and me playtime-a new start up class to help with community isolation- had 15 participants.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.7%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 62.4%; rating input score 62

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: 27.4%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 45.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.7% of revenue deployed · 62.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.