Hope South Florida Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
650670031
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Phone
9545662311
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,344,233
Expenses
$1,998,810
Assets
$1,825,884
Liabilities
$1,255,819

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSEPH D KENNER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOSEPH D KENNER (PRESIDENT): $191,615 total reported compensation
  • GEORGE RICH (VP OF OPERAT): $113,383 total reported compensation
  • DENISE TRIO (DIRECTOR): $15,000 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 be a hope-filled community, keeping families together, providing compassionate care, and guiding and equipping those we serve on a path to holistic life change.

What it reported doing in 2025

Hope south Florida is a christian-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been serving families experiencing homelessness in broward county since 1995. Our mission is to be a hope-filled community, keeping families together, providing compassionate care, and guiding and equipping those we serve on a path to holistic life change. Hope south Florida provides an array of housing stabilization and supportive services designed to help families achieve safe, stable, and permanent housing. These services include housing navigation, case management, rapid re-housing assistance, homelessness prevention, transitional housing, emergency shelter coordination, financial assistance, and connections to community resources that address the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of families. In 2025, hope south Florida celebrated 30 years of serving families experiencing homelessness. During the year, the organization served 79 families, representing 275 individuals, including 156 children, through its housing and supportive service programs. In support of this mission, 274 volunteers contributed more than 1,000 hours of service, helping to provide compassionate care and meaningful assistance to the families we serve. A significant milestone in 2025 was the launch of broward county's first official family safe parking program in december. The program provides families with children who are living in their vehicles a safe and secure place to park overnight while receiving comprehensive case management, housing navigation, meals, hygiene services, and other supportive services that help families transition to permanent housing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, and 48% for grants.
  • 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.4%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.4% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $192K · 14 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.