Hope in Pain Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853118651
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Phone
9493752446
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$134,020
Expenses
$144,980
Assets
$100,461
Liabilities
$1,983

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUSANNAH LIPSON-DE MARIGNY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • SUSANNAH LIPSON-DE MARIGNY (PRESIDENT)
  • PETER J DE MARIGNY (SECRETARY)
  • RALPH CARMICHAEL (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

Support, educate & advocate for persons w/ migraine dis

What it reported doing in 2025

Stages of Life with Migraine: Utilizing interviews from our medical advisors and other headache specialists, the Program looks at the challenges faced by people in each of these stages of life including best practices, tips and ideas, treatment options, and stigma. The program includes: Zoom webinars with live Q&A, Video clips from interview(s) with headache specialists Website page with Q&A for each --stage of life-- taken from interviews with headache specialists, Social media posts and blogs STAGES include: Migraine During Childhood, Adolescence, Young Adults Mid-Career, Men, Menopause, Pregnancy, Seniors

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 91% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.7%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 46%; rating input score 46

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: -8.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 35.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.7% of revenue deployed · 46% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.