Hope Street Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450497577
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Burr Ridge, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6307890200
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,226,432
- Expenses
- $2,173,607
- Assets
- $1,687,979
- Liabilities
- $13,672
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID MA (PRESIDENT CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM HANSON (CTO): $325,422 total reported compensation
- DAVID MA (PRESIDENT CEO): $276,588 total reported compensation
- NORRIS CHEBL (ENGINEER): $160,208 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hope Street Group is a national nonprofit that builds tools and programs to support teachers and help students explore careers, reflect on what matters to them, and connect their class to their aspirations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through hope street groups education initiatives , we offer an opportunity for policymakers and educators to work together to significantly improve the way public education operates at the national, state, and local levels. We have seen that by creating structured programs and leveraging the model of the teacher fellow programs through cross-learning and communications, we can streamline challenges and scale solutions between various education stakeholders. In addition, our network provides access to individuals who offer unique, new, and on-the-ground perspectives that could potentially become viable solutions to public policy problems. Hope street group offers a safe place to test those solutions and to pilot new ideas.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $325K · 9 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.