Hope Street Free Clinic Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932231392
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9802202306
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,995
- Expenses
- $53,338
- Assets
- $15,656
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Prabhu Emmady (Executive Director/CEO)
- Manoj Kothuri (Board President)
- Josephine Jebackumar (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Prabhu Emmady (Executive Director/CEO)
- Prasanth Nandamuri (Director)
- Ebeneer Gujjarlapudi (Director)
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
Our mission is to share the love of Christ through compassionate service by providing free, quality healthcare and humanitarian support to individuals and communities in need-regardless of their beliefs, socio-economic status, or background. Rooted in our Christian faith, we believe every person is created in the image of a Sovereign God and is deserving of dignity, love, and access to basic healthcare and essential resources. Hope Street International Missions provide basic healthcare services to underserved communities in Charlotte, NC, and through our mission trips to Uganda. We remove all barriers to healthcare access by requiring no insurance, no income verification, and no identification. In addition, we also provide educational and training events for students.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program Service Accomplishment - International Medical Missions to Uganda Hope Street Free Clinic conducted multiple charitable medical outreach initiatives in Uganda during 2025, including medical mission trips in March and October, as well as additional charitable outreach trips in May and August. These missions were designed to provide essential healthcare services, medications, and health education to underserved rural communities surrounding Tororo, where access to medical care is severely limited. Volunteer teams from the United States, led by Dr. Prabhu D. Emmady, MD, and supported by qualified medical professionals, operated mobile medical clinics in collaboration with local community leaders and volunteers. Across the four outreach trips, the teams visited multiple villages, conducting patient registration, triage, medical evaluations, diagnosis, and treatment planning. Patients received individualized counseling on medication adherence, nutrition, chronic disease management, and early symptom recognition. Health education sessions were provided to increase health literacy and empower community members to engage in preventive care practices. During these missions, a total of over 4,000 patients were seen and treated. The teams distributed more than 150,000 doses of essential medications, including treatments for malaria, parasitic infections, respiratory illnesses, gastrointestinal disorders, musculoskeletal pain, dermatologic conditions, anemia, hypertension, and other common acute and chronic conditions. All medical services and medications were provided at no cost to recipients and were supported entirely through charitable donations and volunteer participation. These missions emphasized collaboration with local pastors, elders, and regional coordinators to ensure culturally appropriate care and promote sustainability. Local volunteers assisted with translation, patient flow, and follow-up guidance, strengthening the community's capacity to support ongoing health needs. Through these combined efforts, Hope Street Free Clinic advanced its charitable purpose by: Expanding access to medical care for underserved and impoverished populations Delivering essential medications in regions with limited pharmacy access Providing health education to improve preventative care and health literacy Supporting long-term community health through collaboration with local leaders These Uganda medical missions reflect the organization's ongoing commitment to providing compassionate, volunteer-driven healthcare internationally, addressing immediate medical needs, and promoting sustainable health improvements in resource-limited settings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.4%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.