HOPE Christian School
Legal name: Hope Christian Schools Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850244670
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, United States
- Phone
- (505) 821-2513
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,388,669
- Expenses
- $14,474,971
- Assets
- $55,958,343
- Liabilities
- $24,548,549
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL HEDGES (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TERESA GROOM (CFO): $144,775 total reported compensation
- TERRY HEISEY (HEAD OF SCHO): $121,578 total reported compensation
- DANIEL HEDGES (CEO): $114,384 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Mission of HOPE Christian School is to pray for, equip and send Christ-centered, passionate leaders to change the world. Our mission is to pray for, equip, and send Christ-centered, passionate leaders to change the world. Thank you for your interest in HOPE Christian School. We are a non-denominational, coeducational Christ-centered school in NE Albuquerque, serving families of children from **preschool to high school. Since its founding in 1976, Hope Christian School has prayed for, equipped, and sent nearly 3,500 graduates to change the world. Annually, Hope Christian School educates approximately 1,200 students from **Preschool through 12th grade**. It is our privilege, honor, and responsibility to prepare these students to be tomorrow's leaders.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hope christian school provides academic programs to children from pre-k through high school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 87% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.87; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 10 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.3M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.