City Hope International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850817351
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7733427153
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Reported finances

Revenue
$141,891
Expenses
$123,895
Assets
$235,183
Liabilities
$275

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLES LYONS (PRESIDENT, CSO)

People named in this filing

  • CHARLES LYONS (PRESIDENT, CSO)
  • CHARLES BUTLER (Secretary)
  • MICHAEL McNALLY (Treasurer)

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

Leadership development; training, coaching and mentoring, customized for those serving in faith-based organizations in urban context, education: specialized training in urbanology, aimed at leaders and volunteers to achieve highest service and functional capacity in an urbanized world. Content creation producing mixed media materials to introduce, interpret, inspire, explain and celebrate faith-based community service in an urbanized context.

What it reported doing in 2025

Education. Created curriculum for an urban studies course for africa international university, and offered same to Louisiana baptist university and mission university. The number of persons benefited is yet to be determined but is potentially thousands. Spoke at maximize cities conference with 250 people in attendance. Taught 24 discipleship classes benefiting 50 people.

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
Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.3%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 59.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.3% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $114K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.