New Hope Academy of Change
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264088828
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5622317468
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational, Technical Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,300,816
- Expenses
- $1,303,532
- Assets
- $21,167
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Roger Branch Jr (President)
People named in this filing
- Roger Branch Jr (President)
- Naomi C Ferns EdD (Founder, Member Emeritus)
- William D Keith MD (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote academic success in each student through thinking, problem solving and in-depth learning. NHAC promotes social, emotional learning that affirms the importance of teaching students to be both physically and mentally healthy as well as creating and maintaining a school environment that promotes a healthy school community.
What it reported doing in 2025
College Planning/ Career Exploration: This increases the graduation rate by encouraging students in grades 5 and above to attend college/university after graduation. NHAC provides information about the importance of preparing for college. A-G Requirements, necessary coursework, and tests, the program supports students in staying on track for high school graduation and pursuing post-secondary education. NHAC also provides students with information about financial assistance including scholarships(academic and athletic) and gramts.NHAC also provides students with information about financial assistance, including scholarships(academic and athletic) and grants.NHAC provides opportunities for career exploration, job shadowing, mentoring, resume writing/portfolios, and the interview process (mock interviews )
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 25
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.4%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 22
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 22.2%; rating input score 22; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.4% of revenue deployed · 22.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $292K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 22/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.