City Hope

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
993224071
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Dothan, AL, USA
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Foster Care

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,430
Expenses
$57,334
Assets
$5,096

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ella Desper (Co Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Stacee Desper (Executive Directo)
  • Ella Desper (Co Executive Director)

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 organization is dedicated to supporting foster families and children in foster care. Through various programs and services we aim to provide essential resources guidance and advocacy to ensure the well-being and success of both foster parents and the children in their care. Our efforts are focused on creating a supportive community that nurtures positive outcomes for all involved in the foster care system.

What it reported doing in 2025

Foster parents and children were provided with food clothes baby gear and household items to help ease the burden during a difficult time.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.9%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.