Hope Crisis Response Network Inc- Hcrn

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
352147808
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
Pasadena, CA, USA
Phone
8779364673
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,703,018
Expenses
$2,222,842
Assets
$99,869
Liabilities
$127,110

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARK COX (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KEVIN COX (CEO and Founder)
  • CARL BENNER (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARK COX (VICE PRESIDENT): $75,088 total reported compensation
  • KEVIN COX (CEO and Founder): $68,643 total reported compensation
  • VALERIE COX (Treasurer): $28,928 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

HCRN provides assistance to individuals, families and communities following disaster. Our organization serves in all phases of the disaster providing immediate assistance to long term recovery. HCRN does not change for our services and does not discriminate in providing our services. We serve in three main areas: In the relief phase of the disaster, HCRN provides direct assistance to individuals affected through gift cards and supplies; we also train and mentor local community leaders as they begin the process of recovery. HCRN provides mentorship to long term recovery groups across the State of California. In the recovery phase, HCRN is the only volunteer disaster recovery organization that is rebuilding full-time in California for disaster survivors. HCRN mobilizes volunteer teams for the labor force for rebuilding. Our construction managers oversee the rebuilding work and ensure that all work meets or exceeds state and local building codes.For the current year, the organization was

What it reported doing in 2024

Disaster Response and Recovery. HCRN provides immediate assistance, community mentoring and long term recovery rebuilding help for communities devastated by disaster. HCRN is a licensed General Contractor in the State of California. HCRN coordinates volunteers who rebuild homes for vulnerable families. In 2024, HCRN completed two rebuilding projects. In Happy Camp, we completed our work rebuilding ten homes that were destroyed in the Slater FIre. We also completed our rebuilding project in Paradise after serving there for six years after the Camp Fire. HCRN rebuilt 40 homes and worked on more than 800 projects in Paradise. HCRN rebuilds for households who were underinsured or uninsured at the time of the fire without charging for our services. Our donors, partners and volunteers make this possible. Immediate Assistance: HCRN deployed our Disaster Resource Village to coordinate response for the Boyles Fire in Lake County and the Park Fire in both Butte and Tehama Counties. HCRN brought together partners from California VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster) to offer services and supplies to fire survivors. During those Local Assistance Centers, HCRN served more than 300 households. Our secure database was also used by partner agencies to provide Disaster Case Management to the households impacted by the Park Fire. Long Term Recovery Training: Staff implemented training and ongoing support for eight long term recovery projects across the state.

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: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -30.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.27; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.