A Hope Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822587109
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Milton, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8507952287
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $576,090
- Expenses
- $428,826
- Assets
- $1,410,460
- Liabilities
- $650,293
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brandi Winkleman (President CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Brandi Winkleman (President CEO): $32,295 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission statement: To educate our community on responsible ownership of companion animals and proper care for community cats by providing access to affordable sterilizationvaccine services rescue support and community outreach programs leading to the prevention of unnecessary euthanasia.
What it reported doing in 2025
With the opening of our nonprofit spay-neuter clinic Snip Happens in July of 2025 our affordable veterinary services are now provided in house instead of by means of transport to another clinic. These services include spay or neuter of cats and dogs vaccinations flea treatment heart worm prevention and microchipping. We provide our services at affordable prices to everyone in our community regardless of income or location. Our pricing includes a sliding scale to further educe to the military teachers first responders persons of low income and those on Social Security. In 2025 with operations ramping up since the opening of our clinic in 2025 over 1,000 cats and dogs have been spayed or neutered and provided with basic health and welfare services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.6%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.29; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.6% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $311K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 5 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $224K reported
- Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.