Hope Without Borders-USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331193955
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- West Bend, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4147314673
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,075
- Expenses
- $83,662
- Assets
- $42,086
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Lance Parve (Vice-Chairperson/Executive Dir/Eng Director/Treasurer)
- Julie Parve (Chairperson/Medical Director)
- Todd Conley (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
HWB-USA (International) is a 501c3 Charitable Humanitarian Non-Profit Volunteer Organization doing International and Local Program holistic Community Relief, Development, and Outreach. The mission of HWB-USA (International) is to improve the lives of the most marginalized, most vulnerable and least resourced individuals and communities involving engineering, medical, business and education program activities and alleviate poverty, suffering, and injustice.
What it reported doing in 2025
National/Local Relief and Development Program, General - in 2025 involving clothing, supplies and gifts-in-kind (GIK) provided to inner city homeless impoverished communities supporting Milwaukee County Repairers of the Breach (http://www.repairers.org), involving clothing, supplies and gifts-in-kind (GIK) provided to needy families supporting Washington County Foster Closet (https://washcofostercloset.org), Grafton Family Sharing (familysharingozaukee.org), Milwaukee Point in Time (www.wiboscoc.org), Grafton Goodwill (goodwillgreatermc.org), Grafton/Milwaukee area Mr. Bob's Under the Bridge (http://mrbobsunderthebridge.org), and Food Pantries/Medical Services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 42
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 20; 20th 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: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.