House of Hope
Legal name: Christian Community Development
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421397528
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Waterloo, IA, United States
- Phone
- 319-232-3823
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,052,099
- Expenses
- $999,264
- Assets
- $7,875,014
- Liabilities
- $40,160
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SETH VOIGT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KARIN ROWE (EXECUTIVE DI): $99,668 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide a home, a community, and a path to independence for single moms facing homelessness and young women aging out of foster care—through safe housing, job training, money management, and life skills education. While moms attend weekly Life Skills Education class, our trained staff and volunteers provide age-appropriate programming focusing on the Power of Play to help kids overcome past trauma, build resiliency, and improve social-emotional skills. No School Days School-aged kiddos can enjoy a variety of activities during no school days, including a trip to the Cedar Valley Sportsplex to play games with University of Northern Iowa athletes, visit the local museums, or other fun activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The program provides two year transitional housing for homeless mothers and their children. The organization served 162 families during the fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $51.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 75.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.88; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 22% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $813K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.