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HELP IN CRISIS

EIN 73-1125382 TAHLEQUAH, OK

Revenue 2024
$2,042,213
Expenses 2024
$1,523,424

Program services were 86.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P43Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1975

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO ELIMINATE FAMILY VIOLENCE, STALKING, CHILD ABUSE, AND SEXUAL ASSAULT THROUGH ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, COUNSELING, SUPPORT AND PREVENTION SERVICES.

  • PROVIDE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES FOR VICTIMS IN RURAL NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA. THE AGENCY IS THE SINGLE PROVIDER OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR FOUR COUNTIES. THE AGENCY PROVIDES CRISIS INTERVENTION AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES TO OVER 6,000 CLIENTS LAST YEAR. THE MAJORITY OF CLIENTS SERVED ARE NATIVE AMERICAN. HELP-IN-CRISIS, ESTABLISHED BY VOLUNTEERS IN 1979, USES A TRAINED STAFF AND A VOLUNTEER FORCE OF INDIVIDUALS TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES THAT INCLUDE A 24 HOUR CRISIS HOTLINE, EMERGENCY SHELTER, TRANSITIONAL LIVING, COURT ADVOCACY, RAPE RESPONSE AND A FORMAL SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAM, A CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER, COUSELING, SUPERVISED VISITATION, BATTERERS TREATMENT, COMMUNINTY EDUCATION, AND REFERRAL. HELP-IN-CRISIS IS THE SINGLE PROVIDER OF MOST OF THE SERVICES LISTED FOR FOUR COUNTIES.

    Expenses $1,318,647 · Revenue $1,160

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Laura Kuester

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $96,035
    From this org
    $72,242
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,793
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dexter Scott

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carolyn Cox

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Corbin Jarvis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Angela Rhea

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christian Cruz

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dawn Ballew

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Yoletta Ross

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Axley

    FOUNDING MEMBE AND EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Brad Eubanks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jennifer Edwards

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Taralee Montgomery

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Whitney Trammell

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Lewandowski

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,042,213
    Expenses
    $1,523,424
    Contributions
    $1,980,858
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,358,541
    Expenses
    $1,332,361
    Contributions
    $1,273,639
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,437,457
    Expenses
    $1,276,678
    Contributions
    $1,278,973
    Grants paid
    $9,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,247,334
    Expenses
    $1,240,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $997,812
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,353,671
    Expenses
    $1,269,144
    Assets (EOY)
    $962,567
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,326,844
    Expenses
    $1,236,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $929,622
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,323,964
    Expenses
    $1,303,196
    Assets (EOY)
    $781,993
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,327,724
    Expenses
    $1,344,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $782,465
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,465,913
    Expenses
    $1,517,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $817,794
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,506,853
    Expenses
    $1,609,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $933,366
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,383,103
    Expenses
    $1,319,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,066,688
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,340,868
    Expenses
    $1,382,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,068,926
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,436,914
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,149,285

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.