Living Hope Haiti
Legal name: Dieu Est Notre Espoir Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300078509
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- (305) 670-1181
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $446,946
- Expenses
- $324,146
- Assets
- $723,983
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GUEILLANT DORCINVIL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GUEILLANT DORCINVIL (PRESIDENT): $30,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Living Hope Haiti Christian Mission exists to show the love of Jesus to the people of Northern Haiti (St Michel de L'Attalaye area) through educational, medical, economic development, and a variety of related services. Our technical school was the first and only technical school in the history of the city. We are pleased to inform you that our school had inspired other people and now, St Michel has a two year LPN school. Our technical school last year partnered with them to offer their students computer training. The co-founder of the LPN School is a former employee of our Mission. Our Technical school has been self sufficient. We have students graduate every year in computer, trade school, electricity, and construction. 2015 students are the 6th class to graduate. Technical School 2015:.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization runs a large mission in haiti. We have five schools, several medical clinics, a large infant renutrition center, and a variety of projects designed to provide employment to the haitian people. We operate a feeding ministry that brings in roughly 5,000,000 meals a year. These meals are provided at our schools and another 50 schools in the san michel area of north haiti where we minister. We also have five churches and a substantial christian outreach to the community. Living hope haiti also supports overseas surgical trips to the dominican republic, where we operate on both dominican republic and haitian individuals. Due to haiti's lack of employment, we spend a significant amount of time and effort on economic development. We have programs to help farmers, business people, distilleries, etc. We order and ship a variety of items to haiti each year. We maintain and repair our vehicles, we send uniforms for the students, along with computers, desks, and a variety of other items to support our work. We support a tuberculosis clinic in haiti that is called tikay haiti. We support a cancer clinic in port prince. We also support a number of medical facilities and other groups that provide social service aid to the haitian people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 27.5%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $324K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.