Direct Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811476678
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7138225692
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $3,790
- Assets
- $22,829
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DELAINA MULCAHY (President)
- TRACY ROBINSON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DELAINA MULCAHY (President)
- TRACY ROBINSON (Vice President)
- BROOKE RIVES (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Direct hope is organized and operated for charitable and educational purposes, including:1. Providing food, clothing and assistance with locating necessary resources such as medical care, affordable housing and job training to the homeless and indigents.2. Conducting public discussion groups, forums, panels, lectures and workshops for the benefit of the community and for self-development.3. Exercising all powers provided in the Texas business organizations code in furtherance of the above-stated purposes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Donated various suplies for the benefit of the homeless
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 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.02; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -40.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.