Hands of Hope Resources for Homeless Families
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203192107
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Yuba City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5307553491
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,441,429
- Expenses
- $1,054,419
- Assets
- $919,254
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gordon Rowntree (President)
People named in this filing
- Gordon Rowntree (President)
- Barbara Swift (VP/Treasurer)
- James Bursey (Board Member)
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
Hands of Hope works to enhance the quality of life in the Yuba-Sutter area by: Providing core support services to the homeless; Reintegrating the homeless within our community; Engaging the community to respond to the challenge of homelessness.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hands of Hope has established a day service center offering core services including showers, laundry facilities, clothes closet, referrals to other agencies, Case Manager/client Advocate Programs. Hands of Hope has also opened another day center in Marysville, located at 131 F Street, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity and we now run a Coordinated Entry Program at both locations. The Coordinated Entry Program assesses each client for vulnerability and places those with mental illness, chronic health conditions, and chronic homelessness at the top of our priority list for assistance to housing. We work closely with both Counties and Cities, Behavioral Health, Social Services, Health Department, Harmony Health, Victim Witness, and local non-profits, such as Bridges to Housing, Casa De Esperanza, The Salvation Army, 14 Forward, Twin Cities Rescue Mission, , and many more, to best serve our clients in their efforts to return to housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.6%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $166.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st 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: Limited
- 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.6% of revenue deployed · 69.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $737K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.