Hope Is Strong Ministries, Inc
Legal name: Hope Is Strong Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842556992
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Joshua, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8172198394
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,788
- Expenses
- $86,164
- Assets
- $5,515
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karl Binger (Vice President)
- Rebecca L Willyard (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Karl Binger (Vice President)
- Rebecca L Willyard (Executive Director)
- Connie Russek (Secretary)
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
Providing nutritional support through meals and educational support to children and widows. Partner with UsThrough our collaboration with Tanzanian churches, we seek to empower communities through faith-based initiatives that foster spiritual growth and provide tangible support. Together, we are making a lasting impact by nurturing discipleship in both our churches and communities. Church Partnerships Centre for Community Empowerment and Transformation (Orphanage Project).
What it reported doing in 2025
Men's Ministry - providing meals for monthly men's fellowship and bible studies - approx. 40 men
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -37.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -91.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.