Leavenworth Interfaith Community of Hope

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473915085
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Leavenworth, KS, USA
Phone
9137028108
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Homeless Shelters
Affiliation
Interfaith

Reported finances

Revenue
$413,129
Expenses
$398,339
Assets
$495,207
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MYRANDA AGNEW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER CHRISTENSEN (NIGHT SHELTER DIRECTOR): $49,539 total reported compensation
  • MYRANDA AGNEW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $41,769 total reported compensation
  • BELINDA KLASSEN (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $29,952 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

A safe place for everyone, leavenworth interfaith community of hope is a non-profit corporation which provides services to leavenworth and lansing area residents. The organization connects clients with services they need while creating a safe place of belonging for everyone. The community of hope is comprised of the welcome central, the night shelter, and the day center. Welcome central provides services to those in leavenworth county living in poverty which includes instructions about daily living skills, assistance in getting personal documents and transportation to helping agencies and essential services. The night shelter offers those with no place to go or in need of temporary emergency shelter a warm, safe place for men, women and whenever possible families to stay. The day center provides a space for individuals to safely gather during the day to access equipment and facilities for basic needs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Welcome central is the heart of the community of hope. Its programs provide clients with the help they need to access direct services provided by other agencies. In addition welcome central fills the gap in services by providing free transportation assistance in obtaining personal identification documents (birth certificate id social security card marriage license etc.) support with accessing government assistance programs help completing applications vispdat homeless assessment and connection to the Kansas statewide homeless coalition and personal and educational support. It is staffed by a director and 3 volunteers each week. In 2025 welcome central purchased 24 ids for clients and 40 birth certificates. They helped 49 individuals obtain temporary housing and 31 obtain permanent housing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: $27.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 55.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $182K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 20 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 25 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.