Hope's Promise Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841156963
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Castle Rock, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3036600277
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,196,458
- Expenses
- $1,711,454
- Assets
- $1,701,800
- Liabilities
- $568,525
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH WOODS (EXECUTIVE DI): $112,163 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Global orphan care: believing god designed families as the best place for children to grow and thrive, we place orphaned and vulnerable children either with a relative or a non-relative caregiver, allowing them to remain in their own country and in their own community. In kenya, vietnam, nepal, and zimbabwe, our indigenous country coordinators work through local churches in collaboration with community resources to empower and equip caregivers to provide for the children's lifelong physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. In 2025, we cared for 49 orphaned and vulnerable children in non-relative based families, 316 in relative families and supported 25 in post high school studies. We took 35 americans on connection trips to visit kenya, vietnam, and zimbabwe. Our goals for 2026 include having three more international staff get certified as affiliate trainers with trauma free world, providing a trauma informed care training to 30 people in zimbabwe, and taking approximately 35 people on connection trips to kenya and zimbabwe.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.3%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.3% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.