Hope Express Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843874113
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Plainsboro, NJ, USA
Phone
7328231456
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,700
Expenses
$15,761
Assets
$5,939
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Anurag Majumdar (CHIEF EXEC. OFFICER (CEO))
  • Anushka Majumdar (President)

People named in this filing

  • Anurag Majumdar (CHIEF EXEC. OFFICER (CEO))
  • Manoj Mishra (GENERAL PARTNER)
  • Anushka Majumdar (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Hope Express Foundation collects excess food from stores and restaurants and donate them to community soup kitchens and food banks free of charge. A very small portion of contributions come from cash donations, which are used by Hope Express Foundation to buy non-perishable food items for donation.

What it reported doing in 2025

Food donation program Hope Express has partnered with Panera Bread for its end-of-day dough program which enables the biweekly donation of leftover food from Panera bread to Elijah Promise soup kitchen and Trenton area soup kitchen. The program helps feed over 100 community members on a biweekly basis. Hope Express has an ongoing partnership with Costco, Stop and Shop, Trader Joe's, and Home Depot for the donation of food and water, and cleaning supplies to the soup kitchen and food pantry. This ongoing program helps feed 75-100 community members.

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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -25.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.