Helping Ourselves Prevent Emergencies Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731668460
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Craig, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9078262581
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,839,530
- Expenses
- $1,319,453
- Assets
- $2,017,971
- Liabilities
- $18,235
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William Bennett (President)
- Jessica Priddy (Vice President)
- Tiffany Mills (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Tiffany Mills (Executive Director): $103,697 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
HOPE's mission is to construct a safe island environment that provides support and advocacy for victims and survivors of interpersonal violence through collaboration and prevention efforts with others.
What it reported doing in 2024
HOPE was also able to help families obtain temporary housing, along with voluntary case management services, legal advocacy, food, transportation, employment, and freedom from their abusers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.3%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 28.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.3% of revenue deployed · 65.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $869K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.