RVA Hope Center
Legal name: RVA Hope Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843838050
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Mechanicsville, VA, United States
- Phone
- (804) 837-3806
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $626,155
- Expenses
- $321,556
- Assets
- $1,058,049
- Liabilities
- $3,897
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Aaron Hendrickson (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Aaron Hendrickson (President): $43,988 total reported compensation
- Vangielynn Hendrickson (Secretary): $43,988 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of RVA Hope Center is to transform hearts and lives through the love and power of Jesus Christ. RVA Hope Center was started in 2020 by Aaron and Vangie Hendrickson, after years of serving at-risk communities in Richmond. God initially got a hold of their hearts for urban ministry when they led missions teams to New York City, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Miami. It was through these experiences that they learned many of the outreach strategies that serve as a foundation for this ministry. From the beginning, RVA Hope Center has been about encountering Jesus, loving people where they are, being consistent, building relationships, and discipleship of both volunteers and the people they serve. 1-NEW About US Aaron & Vangie Hendrickson.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organization provides an outreach ministry serving individuals struggling with homelessness, inner city children and families, as well as survivors of sex trafficking.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 51
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.6%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 76.2%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $45.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.6%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.29; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 64% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 40.6% of revenue deployed · 76.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $245K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $44K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.