Hope for Gus
Legal name: Hope for Gus Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272224833
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Peterborough, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6034649588
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,470
- Expenses
- $48,627
- Assets
- $256,356
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TONYA DREHER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LOUISE DANFORTH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TED IRGENS (BOARD MEMBER)
- TONYA DREHER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TIM PEDERSON (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hope for Gus is dedicated to funding research and improving the lives of those impacted by Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of the hope for gus foundation (hfg) is to improve outcomes for those with duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.9%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 61.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.27; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 58.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 39.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.