Focushope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381948285
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3134945500
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,577,112
- Expenses
- $37,817,829
- Assets
- $11,958,332
- Liabilities
- $2,970,784
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PORTIA ROBERSON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PORTIA ROBERSON (CEO): $274,197 total reported compensation
- DARYL HURLEY (CFO): $201,434 total reported compensation
- KAREN GAITHER (DEVELOPMENT): $175,296 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Focus: hope is a non-profit civil and human rights organization. Founded in 1968, its mission is to promote intelligent and practical action to overcome racism, poverty and injustice in metropolitan detroit. The organization focuses on four main areas: a food program for seniors, workforce development and education programs, and an early learning/youth development program all looked at through an advocacy, equity and community empowerment (aece) lens.
What it reported doing in 2024
Focus: hopes early learning programs operating at the center for children and new paradigm glazer academy and durfee innovation society, offers quality childcare in an education environment for infants and children up to age five. Focus: hope offers early head start/ head start (birth to five) along with the great start readiness program and other early childhood preschool education programs. The programs serve the children in the community who meet head start or great start readiness program requirements. Additionally, through a community-based doula program, it provides non-medical peer support for low income pregnant mothers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $60.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $33.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $274K · 23 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $122K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.