Tangible Hope Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332081945
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Grandville, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6164463174
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,650
- Expenses
- $122,369
- Assets
- $36,912
- Liabilities
- $1,458
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAULA CRESWELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAULA CRESWELL (PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM CRESWELL (SECRETARY)
- MICHELLE LOVSE (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
The specific purpose of this corporation is to connect incarcerated men and women with pen pals from local churches, offering encouragement and hope through cards and letters. We work with inmates on their release to connect them with local churches and offer a reentry program.
What it reported doing in 2025
Purchased equipment for two juvenile detention centers and assisted in developing their e-sports program. This included 750 gift cards as incentives for participants who achieved goals and met attendance criteria. These are high-risk teens in detention, with an average of 5-7 per class. This is an ongoing program as teens are released and new teens attend. Living forward program- re-entry program for men and women released from prison. This is a two-week, 12-hour class educating participants on life skills, resume building, and mock interviews, taught by a formerly incarcerated individual with 14 years of success in the community and a successful career. Each week, participants attend a resource center for assistance with state id, social security card, and birth certificate replacements, budgeting, life skills, and more. A staffing agency is brought in to present possible job opportunities once a month. We help them with resources for housing, job-interview clothing, and obtaining a driver's license. The cost for each participant over a two-week period is approximately 300. We are experiencing a 75% employment success rate, as well as working within their budget, save for housing and a vehicle, once they are released from the halfway house. This program has received amazing reviews from staff at the halfway house, indicating a change in residents' behavior after attending our classes. My life in reverse. An event was held with approximately 40 youth and adults present. Educating youth on making better decisions based on the story of a returning citizen who was incarcerated at the age of 15. He was released after 45 years. This included a video we had professionally recorded about his life story. We had a panel of five professionals, allowing time for questions/answers to help educate the participants. This was 5,000 for the event; however, the video is being used in churches and our living forward program. Bags of hope. We purchase hygiene items, socks, t-shirts, etc., and each graduate of our living forward program receives a bag. Contents are valued at 75 each.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.