Haley's Hope Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454502660
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- West Fargo, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7013730397
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,096,291
- Expenses
- $1,081,742
- Assets
- $2,440,320
- Liabilities
- $1,916,695
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KARI BUCHOLZ (EXECUTIVE DI): $87,357 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Haleys hope believes learning success changes lives and is focused on changing the way people recognize and understand how individuals with dyslexia learn. The main service provided by haleys hope is one-on-one tutoring with an orton gillingham (og) based system, proven to significantly improve reading, spelling and writing abilities of children and adults with dyslexia.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tutoring dyslexic individuals haley's hope was launched in 2011 in west fargo, North Dakota, and has served over 1200 students. For over a decade, haley's hope has worked to prevent the negative effects of dyslexia from limiting the potential of our youth. The haleys hope dyslexia learning center is the region's only facility providing tutoring and comprehensive services to North Dakota, north eastern South Dakota, and northwestern Minnesota. The national institute of health declare individuals with dyslexia typically read at levels significantly lower than expected despite normal intelligence. Dyslexia affects 15 - 20 percent of students, representing 80 - 90 percent of those in special education with a specific learning disability (sld). Nd has over 16,400 students in special education with over 4,500, or 27.5 percent, with a sld. The national center for learning disabilities reports, ...millions of children with learning and attention issues are not formally identified. Realistically, up to 17,700 nd students may have undiagnosed slds. On average, youth who participate in tutoring for 12 months increase their isolated word reading by two grade levels, spelling by 1.5 grade levels, sound-to-symbol by 1.2 grade levels, and overall fundamental literacy skills by 1.75 grade levels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $64.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th 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; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.26; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.8% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $951K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.