Hear the Hope Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822591799
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Loveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5133347425
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,900
- Expenses
- $46,499
- Assets
- $15,217
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher J Lambert (CEO Creative Director)
People named in this filing
- Christopher J Lambert (CEO Creative Director)
- Christopher Lah (Chairman)
- Walter Tobias Christensen (Vice-Chairman)
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
Music experiences for children's hospital patients and veterans.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hear The Hope professionally produced several original songs in 2025. Each song featured a hospital patient(s) or veteran(s) to provide them and their family a "dream come true" experience through music. Each production is released with a story of hope showcasing the patient(s) on each given song. We also provide musical experiences at Ronald McDonald House on a monthly basis from drum circles. Well over 1,200 participants were directly involved in the production of these songs & RMH partnership. The patients, veterans, their families, friends, and community were impacted by the songs & stories released through Hear The Hope as well as our music experiences with RMH.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 89% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. 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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.5%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 19.4%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 24; 24th 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: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.5% of revenue deployed · 19.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.