Say Yes to Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880857718
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Canton, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8779377478
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $311,023
- Expenses
- $307,033
- Assets
- $6,075
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ronnie Lindley (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Kathy Baker (Board member)
- Ronnie Lindley (CEO)
- Evette Werner (Programs Cooridinator)
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
Say YES to Hope provides information and support to all those affected by advanced cancers. Many programs are provided to facilitate this support through online services and peer to peer support programs. We encompass underserved populations regardless of economic or social backgrounds.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lunch and Learn: Living with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer is a program created to unite patients who are doing just that - living with cancer that has spread from the colon to other areas of the body. We will discuss the issues (access to treatments and care, management of side effects, pain control, financial hurdles and psychosocial issues) as well as the barriers that often confront them during a relaxing and connecting lunch. By combining peer conversations with experts in the field, many important issues will be addressed and patients attending will be empowered. YES and a team of professionals will reach cancer patients and encourage them to become self-advocates of action and change. Attendees will leave the meeting with information and resources that will help them to discover treatment options, manage their side effects, increase longevity, improve quality of life, and erase the stigma associated with stage IV colorectal cancer. The Lunch and Learn program served 12 regional areas across the south, mid west and northeast and was conducted throughout the year of 2025
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 98% 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $155.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 111.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $282K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.