Aortic Hope Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 822084008
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2025–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location: Herndon, VA, USA
Phone: 0000000000
Rating: 43
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue: $74,559
Expenses: $46,120
Assets: $44,626
Liabilities: $109

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Terri Cook (President)

People named in this filing

Carin Andersen (Chair of the Board)
Terri Cook (President)
Jeni Shaffer (Vice PresidentDirector of Partnership Development)

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

Aortic Hope serves a community of patients survivors and caregivers living with an aortic disease The organizations goals are to Spread Hope Create Awareness and Provide Support during the recovery and management of aortic disease Aortic Hope began as a simple Facebook page sharing inspirational quotes and has since grown into something much bigger Today we offer far more than educational resources and our Survivor Serieswe provide a true community Aortic Hope is a space created by patients for patients and caregivers Our growing community includes offerings such as Mindfulness Qi Gong Aortic Kitchen Aortic Artist and so much more still to come

What it reported doing in 2025

Operating model

Revenue model: Other-operating. 65% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model: No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 64
Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: 38.1%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: Limited
Revenue growth: Limited
Asset growth: Limited

Details

Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
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.

High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.