Onward Hope Incorporated

What it reported doing in 2025

In the year 2025, our foster care and adoption services program continued its unwavering commitment to transforming the lives of vulnerable youth and families in Arizona. Throughout the year we extended our reach and impact through a range of strategic initiatives and heartfelt engagements. 1. Comprehensive training and support: serving multiple families over several training sessions, our objective was to equip families with the essential knowledge and skills needed to provide a nurturing and stable environment for Arizona's most vulnerable youth. By offering specialized training and ongoing support, we aimed to strengthen family bonds and promote healthier outcomes for children in the foster care system. Long term goals: our long-term goal revolves around building a robust community of empowered caregivers who are capable of fostering positive change in the lives of children. By ensuring that families recieve the guidance they need, we aim to create a sustainable support network that extends far beyond their immediate engagement with our organization. 2. Successful reunifications and adoptions: with hundreds of individuals served, dozens of fostered children, and several families reunified and children adopted, we have remained dedicated to achieving stable and loving homes for children by facilitating reunifications and adoptions. Our specialized approach allowed us to successfully reunify multiple families, reuniting children with their biological family whenever possible. Additionally, we have had several successful adoptions completed, providing permanent and secure families for children who had experienced uncertainty. Long term goal: our overarching goal is to significantly contribute to reducing the number of children in the foster care system by facilitating successful reunifications and adoptions. By focusing on individualized plans with extensive support, we strive to minimize the time children spend in foster care and maximize the opportunities for lifelong stability. 3. Community engagement events. Over the course of several events with hundreds of youth beneficiaries, we aimed to raise awareness about foster care and adoption while celebrating the resilience of children and families in our program. Our long term goal is to foster a culture of community engagement and support for children and families involved in the foster care and adoption journey. By hosting annual events, we seek to increase public understanding of the challenges faced by these families and generate greater empathy and involvement from the broader community. In 2026, we proudly continue our commitment to being a beacon of hope for children and families. Through our foster care and adoption services, comprehensive training, family-centered support, successful reunifications, and community partnerships, we are helping build stronger families and brighter futures. Every child deserves the opportunity to grow up in a safe, loving, and nurturing home, and together with our community, we are making that vision a reality.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 26.5%; rating input score 26
• Program expense ratio: 30.7%; rating input score 31
• Fundraising efficiency: $8.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

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

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • 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: 13.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.72; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -55.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings