Our Place of Hope

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841829518
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Columbia, SC, USA
Phone
8035533278
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Mental Health Center

Reported finances

Revenue
$172,403
Expenses
$269,581
Assets
$114,593
Liabilities
$1,480

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • ELLEN HUCKS (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • DR DEBRA BJORK (CHAIR)
  • RONALD BURKETT (FINANCE)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The our place of hope clubhouse provides people living with severe mental illness a stable, warm, and inviting environment where they can engage in meaningful work and meaningful relationships each day and can regain purpose, meaning, and hope for their lives.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community mental health forum and events-- this accomplishes several goals including: 1) helping to remove the stigma of mental illness, 2) educating the community on the impact of mental illness on our community, 3) advocating to the community that the clubhouse international model is a proven and cost effective model and is a resource needed in the midlands, 4) building a coalition of community partners to provide this resource to those living with mental illness. This involved about 180 people and has both short range impact and long range impact for the mission.

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

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -56.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 75.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 46% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $210K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.