Hope Cares Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824168622
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
Location
Eatonville, FL, USA
Phone
3218887364
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Vocational Rehabilitation

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,900
Expenses
$41,420
Assets
$33,480
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Shakera Freeman (Executive Director President)

People named in this filing

  • Shakera Freeman (Executive Director 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

HOPE Cares Inc is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to motivate inspire empower and nurture youth by providing educational support life skills and community-based resources The organization provides career development programming academic support and mentoring services to youth ages 14-21 with IEP and 504 plans in partnership with the Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 HOPE Cares Inc operated summer and fallwinter career camp programs serving youth ages 14-21 with Individualized Education Programs IEPs and 504 plans in Orange County Florida Programs were funded through the Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and focused on career exploration job readiness life skills development and transition support for youth with disabilities The organization successfully delivered structured programming aligned with each participants vocational rehabilitation plan and transition goals

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 39%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 42; 42nd 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.