Christian Hope Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910858511
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Lynden, WA, USA
Phone
3603549930
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,138,452
Expenses
$2,024,405
Assets
$4,152,027
Liabilities
$246,826

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Shannon Zebrowski (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Shannon Zebrowski (Executive Director): $105,426 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide transitional housing for women and their children. Assist families in crisis, helping them in their recovery process. Provide pregnancy support for crisis pregnancy. Provide food and assistance to our community, helping to break the chain of poverty.

What it reported doing in 2025

New Way Ministries offers a transitional housing program to women and their children facinghomelessness. Our program is focused on trauma recovery and building new healthy foundationalperspectives and skills for lasting stability for our residents after leaving our program. The primary program can last up to two years with an optional graduate program for an additional one to two years. During 2025 we served 21 mothers and 33 children.Project Hope Food Bank provides food to those in need living within the Lynden School District.We are open three times per week and serve an average of 200-250 households per week or 650-750 individuals. Most of our customers make visits once per week during the year. For thecalendar year 2025 we had 10,051 points of service (one point of service = one HH visit to the food bank in which that household completed a menu order form and is then given the itemsrequested). Project Hope Community Assistance provides financial aid in the form of utility payment help, gas vouchers, laundry vouchers, second-hand store vouchers for needed household items, andoccasionally partial rent payment help to those experiencing financial hardship in our community. We strive to offer a hand of assistance and counsel to encourage individuals as they continue working to improve their situation. During 2025, we served 149 individuals with financial aid assistance.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.9%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $25.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.9% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.