Hope Communities Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Programs: Housing Stability, Education, Resource Navigation, basic needs, economic mobility & employment, health & wellness, refugee integration programs, youth programs, and civic engagement/ community-building.We create and offer residents and individuals from area neighborhoods quality educational and enrichment opportunities unique to the individuals we serve. We strive for Hope's residents to be empowered, self-sustainable, and active members of the greater community. We provide both direct programs and services, as well as leverage third-party service providers to assist Hope Communities residents and neighbors. Hope has provided housing, programs, and services to 6,192 clients in the last year. All programs and services are tailored to client needs, cultural nuances, and provided by staff who speak over 21 languages.*Housing Stability: Hope provided affordable housing to about 480 individuals at 4 properties across Denver in 2025. Navigators also helped 1,867 clients from the broader community to secure and retain stable housing. *Resource Navigation many clients who live on Hope properties and from surrounding neighborhoods need assistance securing basic needs and getting resources to advance self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life. The percentage of clients served by Hopes program team that do not live on property comprises 90% of all those served. Many of those clients need assistance finding housing, in addition to basic needs and resources to improve work, school, and health.*Economic Mobility & Employment: Hope Communities residents are diverse. Education and opportunity are keys to economic mobility and self-sufficiency. Hope provides extensive support for hard-to-employ clients to improve their technical skills and work through the employment process. Hope provides direct services and resource navigation for associated career needs and also leverages the resources of area employers and training programs. 2,844 clients received employment support in 2025. Hope Communities provides programs and services that encourage and engage adult learners to acquire and advance skill sets. Some of these include: Computer Classes, Career Exploration and workforce training, Health Literacy, 4,311 clients received legal support and 1,629 got digital literacy training.There has been a consistent focus on upward economic mobility, with clients gaining housing and employment stability, then acquiring stronger financial literacy skills, and many engaging in a path towards home ownership. In 2025, 12 client families purchased homes, over the last four years, 49 families achieved that life goal.*Integration Programs: Hope provides resource navigation and specialized programs to refugee and immigrant clients across the metro region, to help them successfully integrate into the community, become independent members of their neighborhoods, and thrive. The organization has employed staff with cultural competencies in 22 languages in 2025, to support these families and individuals. Community navigators work with clients in Denver, Aurora, Thornton, Lakewood, and other locations across the Front Range from offices on our properties in the East Colfax, Five Points, and Northeast Park Hill neighborhoods of Denver, as well as a program office in Northglenn.*Youth Programs - Hope Communities offers early childhood education, healthy parent-child relationship programs, as well as after-school and summer enrichment, academic support, tutoring, leadership development and programs/activities to advance social-emotional development. Some specific programs include: Ready Tots, Homework Help, Youth Mentoring and Summer Enrichment Programs such as Big City Mountaineering Overnight Camp, Health & Nutrition, Scouting, and the Youth Empowerment Group. Hope aims to help children and youth be school ready, have academic success, further social/emotional development, make healthy choices and build character.*Health and Wellness Hope uses on-site h

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 86.5%; rating input score 86
• Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • 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: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -25.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings