Living Hope Empowerment Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204867954
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Trenton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6093924094
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,390
- Expenses
- $84,126
- Assets
- $91,497
- Liabilities
- $8,557
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Herbert K Ames (President)
People named in this filing
- Tina Clark Roach (Vice Chair)
- Kevin Robertson (Secretary)
- Herbert K Ames (President)
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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our vision is to inspire, educate, mentor, and develop a prosperous Trenton. Our mission is to create innovative opportunities that empower the Trenton community to improve its quality of life. Our overall goal is to improve the quality of life in Trenton via the educational and vocational development, physical, and personal well-being of each program participant. In an attempt to meet the most salient and/or unreserved needs of our community without duplicating efforts, our programming and service delivery focuses on three priority areas: 1- Youth - out of school services (including Summer Programming): Academic Enrichment, Life Skills Development, Vocational Skills Development & Go-Kart Racing School. 2- Living Healthy: Outreach, Education, Physical Activity; Healthy Corner Store; Food Buyers Club; Community Garden. 3 - Community Development: Adult Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship Training & Development, Life Skills Development & Parenting Skills training, general outreach and re
What it reported doing in 2015
Healthy living initiatives: Offering outreach, education, physical activities to individuals. Healthy Corner Store Initiative which aims to bring nutritious and fresh foods at an affordable price to local neighborhood stores and delis
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $252K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.