Abiding Hope Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 301166558
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mars Hill, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8286801230
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,884
- Expenses
- $172,907
- Assets
- $386,090
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Clark Henderson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Steven Honeycutt (Chairman)
- Clark Henderson (Vice President)
- Angela Hilemon (Executive Dir.)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Abiding Hope, Inc. helps women and families in North Buncombe and Madison Counties that face an unplanned pregnancy as well as parenting issues and challenges. We help women by providing free pregnancy tests, free limited OB ultrasounds to confirm pregnancy and options counseling. We also provide referrals to agencies that can help them with housing, food, clothing, and/or safety if needed. We talk with them throughout their pregnancy supporting the family in getting ready for baby. We provide prenatal and parenting classes that can start in the first trimester and last through the first 2 years of life. We have a mother/baby closet to assist with maternity clothes, baby items and clothes up to 2T for baby. If someone loses their baby due to miscarriage or abortion, we have women and access to counselors that can come alongside and help the family work through their grief. We also invest in our community with our middle school age girls after school program to share about womanhood and
What it reported doing in 2025
Ultrasound - Limited OB that confirms the pregnancy and makes sure it is not an ectopic pregnancy. We give them information on the development of their baby and continue to help them get into medical care and community resources to help them as well as refer them to our parenting program. During 2025, this program served 62 clients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.9%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 43.4%; rating input score 43
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 47.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.9% of revenue deployed · 43.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.