Freedom House Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201752186
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
Location
Overland Park, KS, USA
Phone
9132628885
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$754,481
Expenses
$625,964
Assets
$1,438,503
Liabilities
$47,069

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tim Overby (Executive Director)
  • Marilyn Thomas (Founder and President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Tim Overby (Executive Director): $101,231 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the transforming power of love and are equipped with tools to overcome negative influences and past trauma as they rebuild relationships with their parents. We serve families all over the Kansas City area and the Midwest region through our residential program. Our Counseling Center is equipped with Clinically trained, Biblically informed licensed counselors who provide services to teenage boys, teenage girls, and their families in the Kansas City area.

What it reported doing in 2024

FY 2024 brought numerous opportunities and challenges to House of Hope KC as we continued to strengthen our residential therapeutic program, and promote our Outpatient Family Counseling Center. In this shortened fiscal year we continued to serve both boys and girls as we expanded our number of community and church partners. One category of residents we continue to serve more and more are parents who adopt out of foster care. Adoptive parents have a multitude of challenges with their teens and HOHKC has brought hope, structure, and healing to these families as they navigate the trauma their children experienced before being adopted. HOHKC also saw a dramatic rise in generosity from financial partners at our annual Night of Hope fundraising event, taking in over $356,000 in support through that one event. HOHKC also continues to promote our programs throughout the country in a robust Google Ad campaign, and through our presence at Adoptive family conferences. HOHKC was able to complete several deferred maintenance projects this year with the help of community and church partners, allowing our facilities to be updated for the mission ahead. HOHKC continues to build our volunteer base with 7 weekly volunteers and approximately 120 volunteers serving in various workdays on our campus throughout the year. HOHKC was able to graduate 5 more students from our program in October 2024, and we witnessed our largest year-end giving in several years. Shifting our fiscal year to calendar year will set up HOHKC for future success especially as we continue to pursue more grant funding through Family and Community Foundations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $16.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 17%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $560K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.