What tax filings and Form 990 disclosures exist for Everyday Heroes Like You and what do they reveal about funding and expenses?
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Executive summary
Everyday Heroes Like You, EIN 26-3416850, is listed in multiple nonprofit databases as a 501(c) that files the IRS Form 990-N e‑Postcard, which means the charity is below federal thresholds that trigger full Form 990 disclosure; as a result there are no line‑item public filings showing revenue, expenses, officer compensation or detailed program spending on public repositories like ProPublica/Nonprofit Explorer and Charity Navigator [1] [2] [3]. The absence of full 990-series filings does not prove anything about the organization’s conduct — it only constrains what can be learned from federal information returns and forces reliance on secondary sources or voluntary disclosures [4] [5].
1. What filings are documented for Everyday Heroes Like You and where they appear
Public nonprofit trackers identify Everyday Heroes Like You and link it to EIN 26‑3416850 and a Scottsdale, AZ address; GuideStar explicitly notes the organization is “required to file an IRS Form 990‑N,” and Charity Navigator says it “files Form 990‑N, as allowed by the IRS for charities with less than $50,000 annual revenue,” which is why those services show no detailed 990 data for the group [3] [2] [6]. ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer has entries for organizations called Everyday Heroes and Everyday Heroes Like You, but the Nonprofit Explorer dataset used for detailed Form 990 summaries only contains digitized full 990s processed from 2012 onward, and will not include 990‑N e‑Postcards or organizations that consistently file the short e‑Postcard form [7] [1] [8].
2. What the existing tax filings reveal (and what they do not)
Because the group files the Form 990‑N e‑Postcard, the IRS receives only an annual electronic notice confirming that revenue is below the filing threshold rather than a full financial return; therefore public databases report “no financial data available” — no reported revenue, no expense lines, no assets or liabilities, and no executive compensation details are shown on Charity Navigator or ProPublica summaries [2] [1] [6]. That limited filing status reveals one clear fact from public records: the organization has reported itself as small enough to qualify for 990‑N treatment; it does not reveal program expenditures, fundraising costs, grant receipts, or payments to insiders because those are disclosed only on full Form 990 filings [4] [9].
3. Conflicting signals and secondary leads worth noting
Some third‑party services or aggregators may list downloadable Form 990s for entities named Everyday Heroes (for example a CauseIQ link referencing a 2020 Form 990), but those references need careful vetting against EIN and address because similar names can belong to different legal entities and Nonprofit Explorer’s digitized full 990 dataset does not show a detailed 990 for EIN 26‑3416850 [10] [8]. Public watchdogs and donors must therefore treat such secondary listings as leads rather than confirmations and cross‑check the actual IRS Form 990 series downloads or the organization’s own published reports before drawing final conclusions [5] [7].
4. Why Form 990 rules matter for transparency in this case
IRS rules establish that organizations below certain revenue and asset thresholds may file 990‑N instead of full 990 or 990‑EZ, a policy intended to reduce compliance burdens for very small charities but which also reduces publicly available oversight data [4] [11]. The Form 990 itself is the “primary tool” the IRS and the public use to assess nonprofit finances and governance; absent that return, regulators and researchers lose the standardized, searchable disclosures about program service revenue, grants, fundraising, and officer compensation that a full 990 provides [4] [9].
5. Bottom line and what can be done to learn more
Public records confirm Everyday Heroes Like You is a tax‑exempt 501(c) that files the e‑Postcard (Form 990‑N), and that status means there are no detailed IRS‑hosted disclosures of revenue or expenses for the organization in the major public repositories consulted here [3] [2] [1]. To move beyond this limitation, investigators should request the organization’s own annual reports or audited financials, ask for copies of any full Form 990s if a fiscal year crossed the reporting threshold, or search the IRS downloads by EIN and year; until such documents surface, public 990‑series data simply do not reveal funding or expense line items for this charity [5] [10].