The Hope Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870641198
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Park City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 4353333334
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $739,503
- Expenses
- $760,354
- Assets
- $833,629
- Liabilities
- $54,469
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DIANE BERNHARDT (EXECUTIVE DI): $107,039 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hope alliance's mission is to expand access to high-quality vision care for individuals facing economic and geographic barriers, enabling clearer sight and brighter futures in Utah and around the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, hope alliance strengthened its role as a trusted, efficient provider of essential vision services by increasing service delivery and broadening community collaboration. O we served more than 5,000 children and adults with free eye exams, prescription glasses, diagnostic screenings, or clinical referrals through community-based clinics and outreach events across six counties in Utah. O we supported global partners in guatemala, mexico, uganda, and tanzania, delivering thousands of prescription glasses, portable diagnostic equipment, and technical guidance to bolster sustainable local vision care. O we implemented key operational improvements, including enhanced patient workflows and refined logistics for domestic and international programs to ensure efficient stewardship of resources. Human impact remained at the heart of this work, from a student whose first pair of glasses unlocked confidence in the classroom, to a senior who regained independence and joy in everyday activities after years of diminished sight, each story demonstrating how restored vision creates immediate and lasting change. Throughout 2024, hope alliance advanced its mission with community partnership and patient-centered, program excellence. Looking at 2025, we are expanding capacity through a new mobile clinic and growing strategic outreach efforts so even more individuals can access the vision care they need to thrive.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -2.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $610K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.