The HOPE Detroit Powered by K-LOVE
Legal name: The Hope Church of Detroit Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473088141
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3137751846
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,199
- Expenses
- $102,081
- Assets
- $175,107
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEREL BLAND (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JEREL BLAND (PRESIDENT)
- RUTH BELLINGER (SECRETARY)
- TYMAN RAY (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We exist to help bring revitalization & awakening in lives throughout Metro Detroit. Through the work of The HOPE Detroit Powered by K-LOVE, lives are touched when we show the love of Jesus.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided thousands of diapers to a diaper drive. Provided 300 aldi gift cards to families for thanksgiving provided christmas toys and gifts to kids of incarcerated parents provided toys to the children hospital for christmas provided toys for a christmas store for families to shop for their children provided bag lunches for saturday feedings for the homeless community.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 59.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -110.8% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.