Living Hope Ministries in Haiti Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311418300
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Dublin, OH, USA
Phone
7342722078
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$236,790
Expenses
$222,140
Assets
$594,041
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mary Jane Jolibois (President & Int'l Director)
  • Hope Boring (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Mary Jane Jolibois (President & Int'l Director): $6,955 total reported compensation
  • Jean Andris Joilbois (Haitian Director): $6,955 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To train and educate a generation of young men and women to change their families, communities and Nation with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in word and action.

What it reported doing in 2025

Living Hope Ministries in Haiti runs a licensed Primary School (pre-school through 6th grade) with about 200 students enrolled. We also run and operate six different sections of Trade School (Business, Cooking, Welding, Sewing and Tailoring, Embroidery and Music). There are about 300 students in all combined sections of the Trade School. In the US, in 2025, we raised $224,128 to support the programs in 4a and 4b. Expenses include Haitian teacher salaries & taxes, textbooks, materials, food for students, school supplies, maintenance on buildings, etc.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.67; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $208K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $7K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.