Hosanna Community House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521672867
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Churchville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4106522468
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,402
- Expenses
- $128,730
- Assets
- $182,328
- Liabilities
- $17,220
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR IRIS LEIGH BARNES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MICHELLE GOLDING (PRESIDENT)
- SAMUEL BOYKINS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DR IRIS LEIGH BARNES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $40,365 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 hosanna community house, doing business as hosanna school museum, is to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of harford county, Maryland through the lens of the african american experience within national contexts.
What it reported doing in 2024
The hosanna school museum significantly expanded its african american heritage preservation and public history initiatives in harford county. The museum now offers digital and immersive educational initiatives, including the "harford freedmen's education project," which documents schools established for formerly enslaved african americans during reconstruction, the "step back in time" 360-degree interactive video experience, the online exhibition trials and triumphs, and an interactive story map highlighting african american sites of memory across harford county. These initiatives are accessible worldwide. Hosanna also expanded public programming through its new three-day "freedom weekend" juneteenth commemoration, featuring a legacy empowerment workshop, the upper bay juneteenth festival, and a gospel celebration. Additionally, the museum launched an underground railroad bus tour series, based on extensive historical research that uncovered new sites. The inaugural tour sold out quickly and generated an extensive waiting list for future tours, demonstrating strong public interest in local african american history and heritage tourism.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -65.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $103K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.