Totals
- Total revenue
- $7,639,822
- Total expenses
- $2,426,823
- Contributions and grants received
- $7,637,917
- Grants paid
- $1,545,574
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $100,745
- Other revenue
- -$98,840
- Total assets, end of year
- $10,085,217
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,519,871
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $8,565,346
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,071,367
- Management and general expenses
- $107,389
- Fundraising expenses
- $248,067
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,071,367
Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
-
1c · Fundraising events
$732,631
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$6,905,286
-
3 · Investment income
total $99,892 · excluded $99,892
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $54,108
-
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $53,255
-
7c · Gain or loss
securities $853
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $853 · related or exempt $853
-
8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$11,740
-
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$732,631
-
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$118,492
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$106,752
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10a · Gross sales of inventory
$7,912
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $7,912 · excluded $7,912
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $1,545,574 · program services $1,545,574
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $378,656 · program services $257,486 · management and general $22,719 · fundraising $98,451
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $122,540 · program services $83,327 · management and general $7,353 · fundraising $31,860
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $83,130 · program services $56,528 · management and general $4,988 · fundraising $21,614
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $106,013 · program services $25,913 · management and general $20,304 · fundraising $59,796
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $4,982 · program services $3,388 · management and general $299 · fundraising $1,295
-
13 · Office expenses
total $7,856 · program services $5,342 · management and general $471 · fundraising $2,043
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $38,049 · program services $25,873 · management and general $2,283 · fundraising $9,893
-
17 · Travel
total $33,216 · program services $24,845 · management and general $2,392 · fundraising $5,979
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $4,320 · management and general $4,320
-
24a · Other expenses: BANK CHARGES
total $38,459 · management and general $38,459
-
24b · Other expenses: PRINTING AND COPYING
total $29,851 · program services $20,299 · management and general $1,791 · fundraising $7,761
-
24c · Other expenses: TECHNICAL FEES
total $26,429 · program services $17,972 · management and general $1,585 · fundraising $6,872
-
24d · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping
total $4,640 · program services $3,155 · management and general $278 · fundraising $1,207
-
24e · All other expenses
total $3,108 · program services $1,665 · management and general $147 · fundraising $1,296
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
-
1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $757,614 · end of year $3,600,939
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $9,300 · end of year $3,614,048
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $25,000 · end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $3,299,565 · end of year $2,794,648
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $2,600 · end of year $75,582
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $41,666 · end of year $34,474
-
18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $1,052,081 · end of year $1,485,397
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $3,000,332 · end of year $6,207,237
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
end of year $2,358,109
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Helpusadopt.org is a national financial grant program that helps couples/individuals (regardless of ethnicity, gender, marital status, religion, or sexual orientation) with the cost of their adoptions by awarding grants up to $30,000. We support domestic, international and foster care adoptions and do not charge our applicants to apply. Since 2007, we have awarded 372 adoption grants totaling over $3.3 million.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To provide financial assistance towards adoption expenses
-
Provided assistance, support, information, education and financial assistance to individuals attempting to adopt a child (within or outside of the United States).
Expenses $2,071,367 · Grants $1,545,574
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Rebecca Snyder FawcettREBECCA SNYDER FAWCETT
President & sec
- Total calculated
- $204,953
- From this org
- $186,746
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,207
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $186,746
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $18,207
- Filer's total
- $204,953
-
Nasha FosterNASHA FOSTER
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $112,491
- From this org
- $99,253
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,238
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Erin McMurtreyERIN MCMURTREY
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $99,286
- From this org
- $92,657
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $6,629
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Sarah CotenoffSARAH COTENOFF
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kipp Fawcett
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Kate Jenkins
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Glenn Hill
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Veronica M Beard
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Seema Baranwal
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kimberly Rescigno
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael Morgan
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jeff Dorschuck
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Samantha FirestoneSAMANTHA FIRESTONE
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Christina Donelson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Paige GrimaldiPAIGE GRIMALDI
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Deborah Drinkwater
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael Miller
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Sterling McCulloughSTERLING MCCULLOUGH
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Victoria Pelletier
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Hyla Rosenberg
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Karen Anisi Sperber
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Linda Yarden
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sheryl MooreSHERYL MOORE
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sandhya Rawal-SumangaliSANDHYA RAWAL-SUMANGALI
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
Answered no
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 14 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202533189349305943
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