Hope Thru the Valley
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934582402
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Wantage, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9734466900
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,138
- Expenses
- $92,083
- Assets
- $78,109
- Liabilities
- $4,393
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC THIESSEN (PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY)
- KENDALL EVERETT (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- THERESA GARRIS (TRUSTEE)
- ERIC THIESSEN (PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY)
- KENDALL EVERETT (VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The corporation is established to provide christian grief support services based on biblical practices and the comfort that christ provides.
What it reported doing in 2025
Weekly hymns, fellowship & lunch gatherings - this program invites participants to be encouraged through comforting christian music and supportive fellowship while sharing a light lunch. Our focus is to provide supportive opportunities to break detrimental isolation often associated with grieving - reminding participants they are not alone and they are welcome to come as they are program began midyear with 24 events held, resulting in 73 touchpoints of support and care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.9%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 37.4%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.8%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.9% of revenue deployed · 37.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.