Hope Road Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
393456238
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$73,940
Assets
$73,940

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Melanie Dow (Director)
  • Lauren Muckleroy (Secretary)
  • Hunter Norris (Treasurer)

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

The purpose of Hope Road Center is to provide peer support for children and their families who are grieving due to the death loss of a parent sibling or close family member. Hope Road was formed due to a strong need for this kind of support for families and children in Central Texas. The main goal is to help families who are grieving and to provide a network of support services for these children with the help of both staff and trained volunteers.

What it reported doing in 2025

During the tax year the organization focused on development and planning in preparation for launching grief support services for children and families in Central Texas. Activities included obtatining 501c3 status discussing policies and building relationships and partnerships in preparation for future programming and long term sustainability. No direct program services were conducted during the tax year as the organization remained in the start-up phase.

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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.