Hope Is Alive Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461181070
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Phone
8443467366
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,559,709
Expenses
$9,491,966
Assets
$28,386,896
Liabilities
$4,326,600

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LANCE LANG (CO-CEO)
  • ALLYSON LANG (CO-CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • LANCE LANG (CO-CEO): $311,149 total reported compensation
  • ALLYSON LANG (CO-CEO): $248,236 total reported compensation
  • TITUS CAREY (RECRUITING DIR.): $134,958 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Hope is Alive Ministries, Inc. exists to radically change the lives of drug addicts, alcoholics, and those who love them.

What it reported doing in 2024

Hia provides mentoring homes for addicted individuals transitioning back into the real world from treatment centers, correctional facilities and poor life choices. Our 25 mentoring homes have enjoyed an 85% success rate for all graduates. Hia has witnessed restoration in the lives of well over 1,000 people. Residents leave our program equipped emotionally, professionally, spiritually and financially alongwith a toolkit of life skills that enable them to contribute mightily to their respective community. While living at hia, residents are guided through our unique phase program that helps them to build a strong foundation of life skills and recovery. At completion of the three phases, the residents will have accomplished over 60 requirements. This gives them incredible confidence that goals can be reached and that they can finish what they started.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 76
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 39.3%; rating input score 39
  • Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 66
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th 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: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.7%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.99; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 39.3% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $311K · 11 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.