Hope Missions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823850354
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,405
- Expenses
- $25,833
- Assets
- $2,872
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Stacey Scott (Secretary)
- Jermaine Gibbs Founder (Founder)
- Lionel Finney (Assistant)
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 Missions is a nonprofit organization formed to empower and support youth and underserved individuals in Baltimore City through education creative arts and community outreach. Our exempt purpose is to provide photography and creative arts education programs that help young people develop technical skills self-confidence leadership abilities and positive outlets for self-expression. Through hands-on training mentorship and workforce development opportunities we aim to inspire youth to pursue educational entrepreneurial and career pathways in the creative industry. In addition to youth programming Hope Missions is committed to serving the community through homeless outreach initiatives. We provide clothing food and other essential resources to individuals and families experiencing hardship. Our organization exists to strengthen the community by promoting education creativity compassion and economic empowerment while creating safe and supportive opportunities for grow.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hope Missions is a nonprofit organization serving youth in Baltimore City through photography and creative arts education programs. We provide two photography cohorts per year serving approximately 1014 high school students per cohort. Our program offers hands-on training in photography digital media editing storytelling and creative expression. Students participate in mentorship leadership development portfolio projects guest speakers and community-based learning activities. Additional program components include financial literacy classes mental health awareness education and career readiness support. All participating students are guided through opening savings or checking accounts with SECU Credit Union to encourage financial responsibility and long-term financial literacy. Hope Missions also conducts homeless outreach by providing clothing food and essential resources to individuals and families in need. Measurable outcomes include improved creative and technical skills increased financial literacy enhanced self-confidence completed student portfolios projects and stronger community engagement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.