Bessies Hope

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841236504
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Thornton, CO, USA
Phone
3035061922
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,476
Expenses
$125,225
Assets
$23,725
Liabilities
$13,519

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • David Geras (Treasurer)
  • Susan Markley (Secretary)
  • Ann ONeill (Chairperson)

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

Educate youth to visit nursing home residents

What it reported doing in 2025

Bessies hope enhances the quality of life for nursing home and assisted living residients by bringing together youth, families, businesses, and organizations. The youth and elders program facilitates structured, ongoing visitations between schools, and other youth groups, and nursing home residents, engaging the youth and the elders in meaningful activities and providing opportunities for relationship building. Participating schools infuse this "service-learning" experience into their students academic curriculum. Reading and writing are major components within the intergenerational partnerships.

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -55.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.