North Carolina · Nonprofit
HELP ONE NOW
HELP ONE NOW (North Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,052,121 to it, the largest being PURE INC ($8,962,283). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $359k
What Help One Now does
Mission
Help One Now empowers families in developing countries through high-capacity local leaders with proven solutions to end extreme poverty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education:through our education program, we are investing in a generation who will transform communities from within over time...fostering future leaders and building community resilience. As we provide education, we see individual lives transformed, families freed from the crushing effects of poverty, the local church strengthened and entire communities lifted. High-quality, gospel-centered education saves children's lives, promotes girls and women's rights, and makes people healthier. It boosts economic growth, reduces poverty, and is proven to directly increase income. Our education initiative is rooted in our partnerships with local leaders and the local church. In 2024, in partnership with 6 pre-schools, 10 primary schools and 5 secondary schools in 8 countries, we supported 4,659 students and 213 teachers; we served 1.14 million meals; and we directly affected over 25,000 lives. Support includes tuition, uniforms, supplies, meals, teacher salaries, training, facility upkeep, and opportunities for post-secondary scholarships. Our partner schools have become some of the top schools in their regions and have empowered thousands of students and their families with hope for a…
$684,008 spentof which $684,008 as grants$904,253 earned by the program51% of program spendingEntrepreneurship: the Help One Now family business program is a collaborative program designed to end generational poverty by equipping families to achieve long-term financial independence, and to become active contributors to the growth and stability of their community. This program guides families through a 7-step process leading to a successful small business. Long term mentorship and individualized support build on the strengths, motivation and passion of each family, making them more likely to take ownership of their own success and actively participate in solving problems as they occur. This creates financial independence, encourages them to re-invest in the growth of their business and ultimately contributes to the sustainability of additional families through employment and economic contribution. Repeated on a large scale in multiple communities, we see widespread increase in community resilience, economic stability and spiritual health. Our entrepreneurship initiative is rooted in our partnerships with local leaders and the local church. To date, we have empowered over 1,600 families in 12 different communities, with an average increased income of 400-500% and many of…
$152,245 spentof which $152,245 as grants$217,976 earned by the program11% of program spendingCommunity care: community care encompasses many different things, including clean water; access to medical care; food security; trafficking awareness, prevention and care; trauma-informed care and counseling; transitional care, reunification and local adoption; spiritual development, church planting and discipleship; emergency relief, and more. In communities where extreme poverty exists, under-resourced systems often fall short in caring for the most vulnerable. Children without adequate parental care experience neglect, trauma and exploitation while a lack of community resources leads to the basic needs of many going unmet. Help One Now provides 24/7 holistic care to children rescued from or vulnerable to trafficking and provides resources that meet the basic needs of individuals living in extreme poverty but more than this our programs focus on caring for the whole person. Help One Now staff walk alongside individuals and families, resourcing them with the tools needed to heal spiritually and emotionally restoring the belief that their lives have value and that they are capable of success. Our community care initiative is rooted in our partnerships with local leaders and the…
$91,975 spentof which $91,975 as grants$190,447 earned by the program7% of program spendingOrphan prevention, reunification and family empowerment projects
$411,866 spent$860,606 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,340,094.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $421k to $913k (+117%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of HELP ONE NOW’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Christopher Marlow
CEO/founder
Board chair
Andy Hooper
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.0M.
19 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HELP ONE NOW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HELP ONE NOW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HELP ONE NOW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 70% · 2019 64% · 2020 54% · 2021 59% · 2022 49% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of HELP ONE NOW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of HELP ONE NOW's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HELP ONE NOW's revenue fell 31% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HELP ONE NOW
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELP ONE NOW: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELP ONE NOW?
- HELP ONE NOW (North Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,052,121 to it, the largest being PURE INC ($8,962,283). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELP ONE NOW have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $15,052,121 in grants to HELP ONE NOW, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP ONE NOW?
- PURE INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,962,283 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP ONE NOW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 37 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing