Give Hope Africa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831638231
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3802647170
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,120
- Expenses
- $45,958
- Assets
- $51,698
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tequam Worku (President)
- Samson Asfaw (Executive Director)
- Damtew Kefelew (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Martin Zuch (Board Director)
- Solomon Gemeda (Board Director)
- Tilahun Tesfaye (Secretary)
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
Purpose one is increasing school enrolment through construction of schools; provision of furniture and teaching aids; provision of school materials including school uniforms and stationeries to orphaned and vulnerable children in Africa, Purpose two is providing nutritional, medical, tutorial support to orphan and vulnerable children in Africa; Purpose three is facilitating vocational skills training opportunities for youth and facilitating provision of life-skills, leadership, and personal development training for youth in Africa, Purpose four is facilitating sport and recreational opportunities for children and youth from low-income families including through construction of children and youth development and recreational centers in Africa, and Purpose five is building the capacity of women (with focus on single mothers) in Africa through vocational skills training, facilitating access to finance, and psychological support to help them generate
What it reported doing in 2025
Funds transferred to Ethiopia and Zambia for projects supporting orphaned and vulnerable children
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.