Hope for Bereaved Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161370553
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3154759675
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $341,226
- Expenses
- $278,052
- Assets
- $436,029
- Liabilities
- $63,727
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kristin Moses (Board Member)
- Nicole Macris (Board Member)
- Rodger Loomis (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide comfort and emotional support to approximately 12,000-15,000 individuals a year suffering bereavement and grief due to the death of a loved one through support groups, presentations, literature, events and discussions.
What it reported doing in 2023
To provide support and hope to grieving children, adults and families by offering one on one counseling sessions, support groups, a telephone helpline and monthly newsletter to the bereaved. Our one on one counseling sessions are conducted by our professional counselors who are all certified bereavement counselors with 40 years of experience. Our support groups meet on a monthly basis and are all supported by trained facilitators. Some of our support groups include: hope for youth - for children & teens, hope for bereaved parents, hope for bereaved parents of infant death, hope for survivors, hope for widows, widowers, engaged and significant others, and numerous others. Our groups normally meet at our facility and all are free of charge and open to the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.6%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 58.5%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.6% of revenue deployed · 58.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.