Five Points of Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331215395
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Milford, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2484442804
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,266
- Expenses
- $97,198
- Assets
- $78,140
- Liabilities
- $559
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIN WELSH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ERIN WELSH (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER LUKER (VICE PRESIDE)
- KATHY KNIGHTON (VICE PRESIDE)
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
Five points of hope's mission is to alleviate the stress of financial burden for Michigan residents diagnosed with cancer to allow them to focus on healing.
What it reported doing in 2025
Eliminating some of the stress of a cancer diagnosis by assisting with debt payment for program (grant) recipients. By providing opportunities for the Michigan community to help fellow michiganders by event attendance, sponsorship, and donations. We were able to provide service to 126 recipients in 2025.
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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.1%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.1%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.1% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.