Hope Counseling Services
Legal name: Hope Counseling Services of Chapel Hill
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814254901
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- Phone
- 9196365972
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $520,953
- Expenses
- $517,256
- Assets
- $142,538
- Liabilities
- $36,900
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bryan Launer (Executive Director)
- Jonathan Goforth (Vice President)
- Kevin Page (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Bryan Launer (Executive Director): $88,596 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pursuing transformation into Christ-likeness through Christ-centered, biblically based counseling, rooted in communion with Christ and dependent on the Holy Spirit. We also know that many of these kids are cared for by schools, churches, families, and teachers who feel ill-equipped to help. Because of this and many other reasons, we care about supporting families and schools around the Triangle. We believe students thrive when their spiritual, emotional, and relational needs are cared for together. In the Fall of 2025, thanks to faithful donors supporting HCS, we had the opportunity to launch a satellite office at a local Christian school. We are so thankful to come alongside students in their daily environment and to partner with these families and staff. We understand that a student’s experience at school profoundly impacts how they view themselves an.
What it reported doing in 2024
Over the past year, weve provided thousands of biblical counseling hours, trained current and future biblical counselors, and resources the churchthrough consultation, training, and seminars.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% 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
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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $269.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $463K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.