Hope Women's Center Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Our education program is designed with three goals in mind: to build relationships, to impart knowledge, and to encourage behavioral changes. Classes are a mix of life skills and faith based topics such as parenting, english as a second language, anger management, grief and loss, health and nutrition, healing from trauma, recovery from abuse, health relationships, crafts, parent-child bonding, and job readiness. Our mentoring program provides trained mentors and staff to meet with clients to discuss unplanned pregnancy, domestic abuse, unemployment, homelessness, prostitution/rape, family conflict, substance abuse recovery, and other life challenges. All services are free and clients can meet with a mentor or join a support group as often as they like. Our hope heals program provides women with free brief solutions based therapy. Our hope at work program provides classes, job coaching, and career readiness and support. Programs are free but are incentivized to clients by providing client points for attending classes that can be used in our womens boutique for material resources and utility assistance. Our womens boutiques are stocked with diapers, wipes, toiletries, cleaning supplies, food, household items, clothing, and baby items. We also offer a cash utility assistance program, transportation assistance, and free pregnancy testing and support. Our every mother's advocate program works with birth moms whose children are in foster care or at risk of foster and is focused on early intervention, creating health home environments, and support for moms working on re-unification. We also have a childrens program (free for ages 0-5 while mom is attending programs). In 2024, we launched our mobile "hope on the road" program sending hope staff to partner non-profits to provide a "pop up" of hope's services including classes, mentoring, our mother's advocacy program, job coaching, and material resources. Clients can also connect virtually to many of hope's other services.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• 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: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -6.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.47; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings