Winks- with Intentional Kindness and Support

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824028546
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Suffolk, VA, USA
Phone
7576569257
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$47,168
Expenses
$34,835
Assets
$61,115
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Samaria Hunter (Chair & President (Working Board))

People named in this filing

  • Samaria Hunter (Chair & President (Working Board))
  • Jaime Tyler (Legal Counsel (Working Board))
  • Kesha Nowell (Treasurer (Working Board))

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

WINKS - With INtentional Kindness and Support is a volunteer-led 501 (c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to uplift brain tumor patients and their families. We provide financial, emotional, informational, and logistic support to brain tumor patients and families in the Hampton Roads region.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, the organization delivered $18,500 through 23 direct assistance grants, distributed 145 Brain Tumor Power Packs to local hospital/care facilities resulting in $4400 in additional expense, and provided structured peer support services to 17 caregivers and patients. In addition to direct services, the organization expanded awareness and outreach efforts through digital engagement, reaching 36,065 social media views and 4,637 website visitors.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.