Fenton Center of Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814143946
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Fenton, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8106208167
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,059,171
- Expenses
- $564,985
- Assets
- $508,708
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Strygulec (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Robert Strygulec (Executive Director): $75,200 total reported compensation
- Jennifer Strygulec (Community Care Coordinator): $70,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We operate a large community free choice market food pantry. This program gives residents the opportunity to shop for the items they are in need of. Our team of personal shoppers and mentors look for ways to provide a sense of comfort and hope, as they do their shopping in dignity. We strongly believe in the client choice model in that it maintains dignity and respect to residents we serve. We have a team of over 120 volunteers with a variety of God given gifts and talents and they are honored to be able to assist residents in crisis move forward. We operate a large parenting program that provides mom's the material goods for their children. Each caregiver, whether mom, dad or grand parents are assigned training modules by their assigned mentor, this specific attention to building long term success is a cornerstone of the program. In addition we offer classes, group studies and Griefshare groups.
What it reported doing in 2025
Parenting Program/Baby Closet We are operating a large baby closet that provides everything a caregiver would use for newborn children up through size 5T. We have a team of volunteers that hand checks items before making them available for residents. The entire room is sorted and organized to ensure a positive shopping experience for residents in need. In addition to material goods this program also provides monthly life skills educational training to help residents move forward with success and sustainability. The training modules are also paired with mentors from our team to help determine what caregivers can use and potential other needs from the household and family. By taking the time to build a relationship and trust we are able to better understand the underlying root causes of needs that are holding caregivers back from success.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.7%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 67%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,412.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.7%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.7% of revenue deployed · 67% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $379K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.