Hope Within Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161643004
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Elizabethtown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7173679797
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,322,254
- Expenses
- $565,936
- Assets
- $1,786,277
- Liabilities
- $18,554
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ANNE MARIE MCALESTER (EXEC. DIRECT): $65,722 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of hope within ministries is to show god's love to people in need through the provision of high quality professional health care, sound counsel, and related education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hope within community health center and hope within counseling services offer free primary healthcare and low cost mental health counseling services. The health center offers free medical care to residents of dauphin, lancaster, and lebanon counties. A low fee sliding scale is in place for counseling services. Clients are eligible for counseling services regardless of county of residence, insurance status or lack thereof. This has been designed to create early and affordable access to mental healthcare services. To date, 80-90% of those seeking services for counseling also lack healthcare coverage. Hope within currently participates with and bills no insurance programs for either of our programs. In july 2020, hope within opened a primary care donation-based dental clinic. We added a dentist to the staff who performs the duties of a "dental director." in addition to our paid registered public health hygienist, we have an additional volunteer who performs the same duties. To further extend our availability, hope within allows dental hygiene students from harrisburg area community college to perform cleanings, prophy's, etc. Under the direct supervision of a licensed public health hygienist. Further expanding upon our primary care services, we added acupuncture and psychiatry. There were 2,625 onsite office visits for healthcare,787 onsite office visits for counseling services and 324 office visits for dental have been performed in 2024 which have benefited 1,000+ individuals combined medical, couseling and dental.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.7%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th 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: 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.2%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.16; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.7% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $406K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.