Hope Clinical Care
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300966671
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2175855437
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,564,461
- Expenses
- $21,559,854
- Assets
- $14,966,689
- Liabilities
- $15,320,893
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CLINT PAUL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CLINT PAUL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $447,963 total reported compensation
- STEVE HELM (CFO): $180,744 total reported compensation
- ERICA DUIJZER (COO): $155,191 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide clinical and educational service and support to individuals with autism and related disorders.
What it reported doing in 2024
The autism clinic - the autism clinic at hope is committed to giving children with autism spectrum disorder professional care and attention so that they can live happy, meaningful lives alongside their peers. Our applied behavioral analysis (aba) therapy intervention services hit the core of helping children with autism by following one simple rule: every child is unique, and we can help them to best reflect those social needs. We plan our preschool aba program around activities and play that encourage children to interact. For our older children, the autism clinic offers the opportunity to practice attending and participating in age-appropriate lessons while learning from others through organized play and conversation activities. We also know that the best caregivers are families and we offer the training, advice, and support that parents and other family members need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $448K · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $393K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.