Hopeful Horizons

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
571063332
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Beaufort, SC, US
Phone
(843) 770-1070
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,977,201
Expenses
$3,764,898
Assets
$4,890,693
Liabilities
$424,711

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KRISTIN K DUBROWSKI (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KRISTIN K DUBROWSKI (CEO): $131,914 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Hopeful Horizons provides evidence-based, victim-centered services to protect, treat and prevent child abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault. The Hopeful Horizons Board of Directors is passionate about ending abuse and changing lives. Together with the CEO, they actively oversee and develop strategies to ensure the organization has the resources necessary to support Hopeful Horizons’ mission. Financial management, organizational communications, fundraising, and strategic planning are their primary responsibilities in addition to serving as ambassadors within the community. Board members are elected for an initial term of three years and required to attend bi-monthly meetings, which are held on the fourth Thursday of every other month at 4:00 pm. Additionally, they are expected to serve on at least one standing committee and to act.

What it reported doing in 2025

Hopeful horizons provides comprehensive, free services for victims/survivors of child abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault, including: a 24/7 support hotline, emergency shelter, hospital accompaniment, evidence-based trauma treatment, counseling, support groups, legal services, advocacy, transitional housing and case management. Through forensic interviews and medical exams, our nationally accredited children's advocacy center provides local law enforcement and dss with critical evidence to help ensure perpetrators are held accountable for their crimes and our multi-disciplinary team approach helps to ensure the best-case outcomes for child abuse victims. Additionally, hopeful horizons provides free professional trainings, community education and awareness events to help increase our community's understanding of these crimes and improve its response to victims as well as providing prevention education in local schools. In 2025, hopeful horizons assisted 1,367 victims of child abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault. This includes 111 women and their children who were provided with emergency shelter for 3,166 nights; 1,572 sessions of evidenced-based trauma treatment and counseling services for adults, teens, and children; 229 people who received legal services; and 385 forensic interviews. Additionally, hopeful horizons provided training and education to more than 1,042 professionals in law enforcement, education, health care, the military, and human services and community members as well as reaching 1,884 youth through prevention programs. Twenty-one families graduated from our evidence-based strengthening families program to develop positive discipline practices, improve communication skills and stay resilient in tough times.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 61% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $19.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st 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: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th 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: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $132K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.