Kayongo's Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264164100
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6168622810
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,522
- Expenses
- $126,353
- Assets
- $102,359
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- JOEL DUNN (DIRECTOR-END)
- RYAN KAMINSKI (EXECUTIVE DI)
- MARVIN EASTLUND (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose for which kayongo's hope is organized is to establish a mission-based charity in order to promote and enhance the health, education and wellbeing of children and orphans who are deeply entrenched in a continuous cycle of poverty in kampala, uganda. This will be achieved through charitable donations to build and operate a christ-centered school and orphanage, rising star junior school, for these poverty stricken children and orphans.
What it reported doing in 2025
Kayongo's hope provided funds to support a ugandan school and orphanage, including money for teacher salaries, student room and board, school supplies, and facilities improvements and expansion.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.6% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.