Hope Enterprises, Inc.
Legal name: Hope Enterprises Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232303287
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Williamsport, PA, US
- Phone
- 570-326-3745
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,586,697
- Expenses
- $25,936,385
- Assets
- $29,502,581
- Liabilities
- $2,926,721
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT A LABATCH (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- JOHN F BUBB (VICE PRESIDENT/CFO)
- CHERYL G YOXTHEIMER (FORMER VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT A LABATCH (PRESIDENT/CEO): $242,473 total reported compensation
- SUZANNE GLISON (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $225,159 total reported compensation
- JOHN F BUBB (VICE PRESIDENT/CFO): $158,967 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empower people with intellectual disabilities to obtain and sustain competitive, integrated employment by focusing on their unique strengths.
What it reported doing in 2024
In april of 2020, hope began to revisit how we support a person's everyday interests and goals. With an in-home and community focus, hope transitioned to choice services to offer a one-on-one service that is unique to each person. Whether that's volunteering, employment, increasing independence, socialization, or pursuing additional education, hope's staff is here to support choice in an everyday life. In 2022, partnerships have allowed hope's choice services to launch multiple "hubs" to offer socialization, wellness, and community integration at local ymcas and churches. These spaces allow those previously supported in a facility-based service to expand their opportunities and achieve their personal interests and goals. Hope's children's campus is home to the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, known as wic. In lycoming county, the children's campus hosts the allone autism collaborative centers of excellence (acce), step inc.'s early head start program, and the upmc pediatric rehabilitation clinic. Hope also oversees the wic program in clinton county, which serves over 700 clients in a given month and has increased telehealth efforts for the continuum of care during the pandemic. Hope's maxworx continued to expand in both manufacturing an custodial services through central Pennsylvania. Named after hope's founder, dr. Max miller, maxworx remains committed to 75% of its employees having a documented disability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 79.2%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 79.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.