Sofia's Hope Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461900752
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3057986725
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $504,293
- Expenses
- $428,242
- Assets
- $866,604
- Liabilities
- $87,231
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marta Blanco (President)
- Jamie Doherty (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Sofia Settineri (Board Member): $2,380 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sofia's Hope was inspired by the life and death of Sofia Blanco at the age of thirteen. And it is because of her and the over 17,000 children in the U.S. diagnosed every year with cancer that we will fight cancer by: increasing awareness of childhood cancer, and specifically that while more children are surviving their diagnosis, 95% of them are facing a significant side effect by the time they are 45 years old; providing programs for patients and families currently in the journey; and funding research in the area of pediatric cardio-oncology which studies the effects of treatments on these children's hearts.
What it reported doing in 2025
Art Program: The focus of our art programs is to provide distraction therapy so that time moves a little faster for these amazing warriors. As such, we provide project kits which patients can do wherever they are as all materials and instructions are included. We have partnered with Nailed It DIY who provides these kits on a monthly basis so we can distribute to Child Life Specialists at Nicklaus, Holtz, Joe DiMaggio, Palm Beach, The Salah Foundation Children's Hospitals as well as to the Miami Cancer Institute (MCI) at Baptist Health and UM/alex's place. Program also includes in-person visits by our partners ClayWorld Studio and Nailed It DIY on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. We also provide virtual and in-person art therapy sessions by a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Certified Child Life Specialist. We believe the time these children spend with each artist and/or project eases their suffering if even for a little while. For one to two hours, they can almost forget where they are and why they are there.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.2% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 11 filed program accomplishments · $356K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.