Tangible Hope Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270975767
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Sausalito, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4154508981
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,419
- Expenses
- $95,361
- Assets
- $16,600
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Telile Yoseph (Founder, Ex Dir)
- Brian Hertz (Director)
- Janet Dean (Chair Treasurer)
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
Tangible Hope Foundation (THF) is a nonprofit humanitarian organization committed to empowering and protecting young girls and women to break the cycle of poverty and create a thriving community by advancing their rights through education, sustainable development, basic medical care and nutrition. Thereby creating a generation of women who can lift the next generation of women out of poverty and into a vibrant life of opportunity.
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 Accomplishments Tangible Hope FoundationTangible Hope has built a school in Langano, Ethiopia in a community where no school existed before. It was opened in a ceremony attended by many government dignitaries who pledged a cooperative agreement where the government is providing certified teachers and supplies to the school. The school building, Desks and blackboards were all provided by Tangible hope through a generous sponsor in the US. Tangible Hope has received an Award of Merit from the president of Oromia and the Oromia Tourism Commissioner for 15 years of unwavering commitment to empowering and educating young girls un rural Ethiopia. Tangible Hope Foundation continues to serve a total of 100 girls in Langano, Kofele and Sidamo. We have continued to deliver basic health care, including medicines to treat parasites. Also, we delivered daily nutrition to each girl along with cooking oil and grains for the whole family to encourage them to keep their girls in school. Once the girls are healthy, they are ready to learn. Thats when they receive their school uniforms and supplies and after-school tutoring. This method of giving the girls the over-all support and mentorship they need to become educated, literate young women is working! As they matriculate through grade school and high school, they emerge ready for university. Ramete, for example, who has been served by Tangible Hope since age 7, has graduated from nursing college in 2023 and is now practicing her new career as a nurse. She is a shining example of the success Tangible Hope is seeing in meeting our mission to educate and empower young girls. We look forward to continuing to support each girl as she travels along her path to a bright future both for herself and her community.Direct Services delivered to 100 girls in Ethiopia:20 hours of tutoring/girl/week = 88,000 hours of tutoring/yearOne nutritious meal/day to 100 girls = 22,000 meals/yearBasic health care to 100 girlsHealth/hygiene education to 100 girls with visiting nurses 2 times/monthSchool uniforms for 100 girlsSchool books and supplies for 100 girlsParticipation in community projects to grow food, clean up the village and plant trees Founder/CEO 40 hours/week, direct services programming, 60%, Administrative time 25%, fund raising 15%. While in Ethiopia, 100% time spent on developing and delivering direct services to the girls. One month 10 hours/day 300 hours direct services development for 100 girls.Ethiopian staff is 100% engaged in after school direct services to 100 girls 80 hours/monthAdministrative Assistant VolunteerInterns Volunteer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.5%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 36.6%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.5% of revenue deployed · 36.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 43/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.