CR Hope Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862162340
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
5307865526
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$120,126
Expenses
$141,300
Assets
$7,513

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Renos Fountoulakis (President)

People named in this filing

  • Renos Fountoulakis (President)
  • Daniel Klein (Prev Secretary)
  • Paula Jane Cox (Secretary)

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

To fund quality education and life-skill learning to children, initiatives which fight against poverty, and women empowerment across Africa.

What it reported doing in 2025

The CR HOPE Foundation awarded grants that supported the following activities: delivery of formal education in alignment with the Zanzibar Ministry of Education curriculum, complemented by extracurricular programs including robotics, as well as English and German language instruction; daily meal plans for 183 students; finalization of the school canteen; construction of a basketball court; upgrading of the playground area; continued renovation of classrooms and equipping them with additional desks and educational materials; hiring additional permanent teachers; initiation of a secondary school development; expansion of transportation capacity through the addition of a third school bus; introduction of community programs such as beach clean-ups and tree plantation initiatives; and procurement of equipment including a printer/scanner to support school operations.

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
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80

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: -17.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $114K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.