Global Hope Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273362555
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Fort Mill, SC, USA
Phone
8033709170
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$124,335
Expenses
$106,468
Assets
$69,815
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Geoffrey C Graham (President/CEO/Treasurer)
  • Diane Miller (Vice-President/Secretary)
  • Marceline O Graham (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Geoffrey C Graham (President/CEO/Treasurer)
  • Diane Miller (Vice-President/Secretary)
  • Marceline O Graham (Vice-President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The Global Hope Project mission is to help meet the needs of poor and orphaned children, while also helping widows, and the poor as we go. Our goal is to minister to the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those we help. We collect monetary donations to enable us to provide food, clean water, housing, health care, education, job training, income and employment opportunities. The Global Hope Project has been working with a registered orphanage (Organization d'Aide aux Enfants en Difficulte en Haiti) in Haiti, a school/orphanage (Shalom Recovery Education Centre) Kitale Kenya and a church in Kitale, Kenya to: Provide nutritious food for the children and staff on a daily basis. Provide clean water. Provide adequate housing. Provide consistent electricity. Provide an education. Provide space for play. Provide training to promote responsible adult behaviors. Provide job training and job opportunities. Create profitable businesses for job training, jobs, income and to transition from

What it reported doing in 2024

During 2024, we served in Haiti and Kenya. In Haiti, Organization d'Aide aux Enfants en Difficulte en Haiti: $4,200 each month toward the food and staff budget. Paid for a new solar system so the orphanage will have reliable electricity and internet. Provide the internet. Christmas staff bonuses, and a Christmas dinner and presents for the children. Top achievements for the past year: In Kenya: i5 Children's Centre: Magadi Rd., Kiserian, Kenya Monthly support for monthly budget. Loaned money to a young married father in Kisumu, Kenya to replace a rented motor bike with one he will own for his motor bike taxi business. Paid for a single mom to go to sewing school in Kisumu, Kenya so she could get a seamstress job to support herself. She now has said job. Pay the school tuition for a growing number of young people in Kisumu and Kitale, Kenya to get a good education. Investment in a future ministry centre in Kisumu, Kenya.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Pass
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 14.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.