Champions of Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854355506
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brandon, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6019552472
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,000
- Expenses
- $913
- Assets
- $4,144
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Simeon Williams (President)
- Samorria Williams (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Demeria Williams (Founder and Treasurer)
- Simeon Williams (President)
- Samorria Williams (Vice President)
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
Our primary exempt purpose is for social services, At Champions of Hope, Inc. our mission is to inspire, educate and empower at risk youth. Our vision is for the organization is to break the poverty cycle during our lifetime by ensuring young men and women have the tools and resources to lead a life free of poverty now and for future generations. Empowering, educating and equipping at risk youth will help to overcome and navigate systemic barriers that many marginalized communities face. We aim to provide scholarships for higher education such as college and/or trade schools; provide ACT/SAT preparation and financial services; provide school supplies for at risk youth and to low income communities; and implement workforce development activities, to include resume and interview preparation.
What it reported doing in 2025
This year we worked to increase awareness and provided a lot volunteerism to provide direct education. We continue to work to increase awareness to the organization. We also increased our efforts to solicit for mentors and raise money for the organization. Our fundraising was lower than we expected due to the slowing economy in Mississippi and national financial uncertainty. We solicited for scholarships and had a low applicant pool as students weren't electing to further their education initially. We were able to award benefits youth in our community and consider this a victory. We championed our mission and vision; bringing awareness to the organization as a whole. Again, we presuppose that the low participation in donations, a decrease compared to last year, may have been due to the uncertainty in the economy. Additionally, our economy is facing high inflation costs and some uncertainty in the financial arena. Our efforts have been grass roots thus far and we're strategizing on how to reach some of the larger corporations for donations, gaining approvals rather than denials, to assist in empowering our youth and educating them in order to make them productive members of society.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.3%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 69.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.54; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.3% of revenue deployed · 53.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $488 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 16/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.