Charity profile · Historical source record

Help Hope Live

EIN 52-1322317Health Pennsylvania Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Hope Starts Here

As a national nonprofit, our mission is to support community-based fundraising for people with unmet medical and related expenses due to cell and organ transplants or catastrophic injuries and illnesses.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

97.16Overall score
out of 100

95.99Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$9,096,716

Total expenses · USD$11,097,835

Program expenses

$9,810,486.14 recorded amount

88.4%

Fundraising expenses

$654,772.27 recorded amount

5.9%

Administrative expenses

$610,380.93 recorded amount

5.5%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.06 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: David Bakelman
Recorded compensation: $154,495.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.39%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

Exact source strings are retained below, including numeric precision. A blank value is marked as not reported; zero remains zero.

All 23 original fields for Help Hope Live
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Health
`description` Mission & description	As a national nonprofit, our mission is to support community-based fundraising for people with unmet medical and related expenses due to cell and organ transplants or catastrophic injuries and illnesses.
`ein` EIN	52-1322317
`tot_exp` Total expenses	11097835.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.055
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.06
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.059000000000000004
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.884
`fscore` Financial score	95.99
`leader` Recorded leader	David Bakelman
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	154495.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0139
`motto` Tagline	Hope Starts Here
`name` Charity name	Help Hope Live
`tot_rev` Total revenue	9096716.0
`score` Overall score	97.16
`state` State code	PA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Patient and Family Support
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	9810486.14
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	654772.265
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	610380.925

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 52-1322317
Source category: Health
Source subcategory: Patient and Family Support
Recorded location: Pennsylvania (PA)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.