Hope's Garden Maternity Home
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990926051
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9712827911
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing, Shelter N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,710
- Expenses
- $277,348
- Assets
- $66,948
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER USSELMAN (DIRECTOR)
- HELENE VANDEBERG (SECRETARY)
- CHERI BROCK (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a safe and loving home to pregnant women who may otherwise find themselves homeless or in a dangerous living situation. To help them know their worth, gain critical life skills and parenting skills to assist them in becoming self-supportive, thriving mothers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hope's garden maternity home has helped 18 women and their children in various ways. Some have been referred to programs and housing that suited their specific and individual needs outside of our scope of help especially since we are at capacity most of the time for housing women and children. We have offered baby supplies to women in need of them also. We currently have 3 women and 4 children under the age of three living at hope's garden maternity home. Each woman and child in our home is growing and thriving and finding respite and peace after fleeing domestic violence and homelessness. See schedule o for continuationtwo of the women and three of the children have been with us for over a year and are completing goals like ged acquisition, job skills training classes and parenting courses. Our future goals are to add two more private bedrooms and a shared bathroom in our home and then someday we hope to have a 30+ apartment/community support residential program for women and children fleeing domestic violence and homelessness.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -139.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 180.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -70.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -109.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $226K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.