Joshua Way of Hope Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873197499
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Tampa, FL, USA
Phone
8133375008
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,944,554
Expenses
$1,758,094
Assets
$372,574
Liabilities
$8,634

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAYETRENIA NICHOLS (PRESIDENT)
  • BYRON ROQUEMORE (DIRECTOR/CEO)

People named in this filing

  • CELESTE JUDGE-JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDE)
  • KAYETRENIA NICHOLS (PRESIDENT)
  • JACQUELINE REYNOLDS (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

See sch o

What it reported doing in 2025

Life skills 360 training institute assisted 110 students in improving their social-emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills. This program is a comprehensive, evidence-based training program designed to equip students with practical skills, tools, and strategies to successfully navigate life's challenges. Some of the training topics include managing anger, social skills, self-esteem, decision-making, stress management, effective communication, assertiveness, and financial literacy. Grounded in a highly regarded prevention curriculum, the program combines engaging instruction with interactive exercises, role-playing scenarios, hands-on demonstrations, social-emitional learning activities and group discussions to support meaningful learning and real-world application. Through these experiences, particpants gain confidence, strengthen peer relationships, and develop self-regulation strategies that support long-term success at school, home, and in their communities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 94% 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 some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.6%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 71.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 73.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 84.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.