Warm Nc
Legal name: Hope Comes Home
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474989520
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Phone
- 910-399-7563
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $139,519
- Expenses
- $163,231
- Assets
- $15,481
- Liabilities
- $14,245
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andy Jones (President)
- Kim Gore (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Andy Jones (President)
- Sheryl Byrd (Treasurer/Secretary)
- Kim Gore (Vice 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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Repair, rebuild, and make homes accessible. Your donation helps us continue making our local impact. We have many other ways you can give to our mission. Click the button below to learn more about the other ways you can provide support. Ways to Give [](. Cathy McClain serves as Chief Development Officer at WARM NC, where she leads fundraising, grant writing, marketing and communications, and volunteer engagement. As a member of the leadership team, she is responsible for building and sustaining philanthropic support to advance WARM NC’s mission and expand its impact for homeowners across southeastern North Carolina. With more than 40 years of experience in development, Cathy brings deep and diverse expertise across the nonprofit sector, including roles in United Way, higher education, healthcare, and independent schools. Her background spans annual giving, major gifts, and capital...
What it reported doing in 2025
Hope Comes Home unites people of compassion to rebuild homes and restore hope for their low income neighbors, many of whom are elderly or disabled, enabling them to live safely and independently in their own homes and communities. Hope Comes Home served homeowners in Southeastern North Carolina. To qualify for services, homeowners must have a household income at or below 50% of the area median income for their county of residence and must reside in their homes and have owned them for at least three years. In 2025, Hope Comes Home performed home repair projects for 19 households.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.92; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $152K reported
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.