The Hoff Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270068248
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Everett, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4253742329
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $446,484
- Expenses
- $439,933
- Assets
- $40,252
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Judy Hoff (Executive Director)
- John Salinas (President Partial Year)
Highest reported compensation
- Judy Hoff (Executive Director): $50,700 total reported compensation
- Richard Hoff (Board Member): $6,110 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To Break the cycle of generational dysfunction which can lead to a lifestyle of physical abuse, drug & Alcohol Addiction, Homelessness and Trauma. We accomplish our mission by offering a hand up through events, programs, classes and radical makeovers. We do this in partnership with rehab centers. Through these hand ups, we walk with individuals through the process of becoming self sufficient. Forty women were helped in transitioning from difficult lives with alcohol and drug addiction, emotional and physical abuse, and other disabilities to self sufficiency. The foundation provides two homes with housing capacity for 22 women.
What it reported doing in 2025
To Break the cycle of generational dysfunction which can lead to a lifestyle of physical abuse, drug & alcohol addiction , homelessness, and trauma. We accomplish our mission by offering a hand up through events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.5%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $440K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.