HELPS INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
HELPS International provides enduring programs of practical, social and spiritual value to people in the developing world through a system of partnership and mutual responsibility.
About HELPS INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
HELPS International Incorporated is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered in Addison, Texas, that operates integrated community programs in Guatemala focused on agriculture, community development (clean cookstoves and water filters), education and health care. The organization’s stated mission is to address root causes of poverty through partnerships with local leaders, volunteer teams, churches and corporate partners. The EIN provided (75-1966419) matches the organization’s tax-exempt filings and public nonprofit databases and the charity maintains an active web presence with recent Form 990s and audited financial statements available on its site. In the last 2–3 years HELPS has continued volunteer deployments, stove and water-filter distributions, medical team clinics and farmer training programs and reported multi-million-dollar annual revenues supporting those operations.
Notable achievements
ONIL stoves distributed
HELPS has installed more than 300,000 ONIL fuel‑efficient cookstoves in homes and schools, creating smoke‑free environments for over two million people and reducing household wood use substantially.
Medical outreach impact
Since program inception the organization reports over 309,000 patients evaluated and more than 26,000 surgeries performed through volunteer medical teams; in recent volunteer seasons thousands of patients were served during clinic trips.
Agriculture & farmer training
The agriculture program has engaged over 23,900 smallholder farmers since 2006, providing training and microloans to increase crop productivity and household incomes.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $8.6M
- Annual revenue
- $4.5M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 75-1966419
- Location
- Addison, TX
- Website
- www.helpsintl.org
- On Mahalo since
- September 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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