Hope Lives the Lydia Dody Breast Cancer Support Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841595472
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Phone
9702256200
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$287,539
Expenses
$272,916
Assets
$309,722
Liabilities
$30,889

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARK KOEPSELL (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ASHLEY BECKER (EXECUTIVE DI): $40,101 total reported compensation
  • ELISE CARVER (PRIOR EXEC.): $34,278 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We exist to add quality of life to women in treatment for breast cancer by offering services and products that help manage the physical, emotional, social, and financial side effects.

What it reported doing in 2025

Integrative supportive care for patients in treatment for breast cancer integrative medicine is a total approach to medical care that combines standard medicine with complementary, alternative medicine practices that have been shown to be safe and effective. They treat the patient's mind, body, and spirit. Complementary medicine is treatments that are used along with standard medical treatments but are not considered to be standards treatments. Example: acupuncture helps lessen some side effects of cancer treatment. Our program covers both areas and offers supportive care services and products designed to help manage the emotional, physical, social and financial side effects of breast cancer treatment. Anyone residing in larimer or weld counties, or a non-resident receiving treatment in one of the two counties, 18-years of age, and currently in treatment for breast cancer is eligible to apply. Throughout our history, hope lives has effectively provided services and products that may provide quality of life during cancer treatment. Each program participant receives a set financial allowance which they are able to draw-down via services received. This allowance is managed by our care navigator and office administrator. Many participants appreciate acupuncture service which reduces or eliminates nausea from chemotherapy. Others seek to use their allowance on mastectomy products, wigs, and housekeeping services. A monthly support group is available to attend and facilitated by a licensed psychotherapist. A new challenge for our organization is keeping up with the growth of program participation and the ability to meet the funding necessary due to our geographic population expansion and the rate of diagnosed cases. Hope lives prides itself for being good stewards of the financial contributions received from private and corporate gifts and grant awards. We continue to analyze our fiscal responsibilities and maintain trust standards as set by the better business bureau.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.3%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.3% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $206K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.