Vision for Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 384026126
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2175855437
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,022,201
- Expenses
- $6,003,384
- Assets
- $4,449,146
- Liabilities
- $9,260,100
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CLINT PAUL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CLINT PAUL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $447,963 total reported compensation
- STEVE HELM (CFO): $180,744 total reported compensation
- KRISTI DAVISON (CHRO): $150,927 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To coordinate and enhance the charitable and educational care provided by the hope school and by hope clinical care as well as the fundraising efforts of the foundation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hope is the premier nonprofit provider of services for individuals with disabilities. For over 65 years, we have been providing the best quality of care to those that we serve. We now impact thousands of individuals who represent a broad spectrum of learning styles and abilities. Today, hope serves individuals with disabilities and their families by providing top level quality educational, residential, and clinical services across six states, as well as community education and training. Annually, we impact over 5,000 individuals through our vast network of services. Vision for hope is organized and operates to provide administrative services and support for the hope school, hope clinical care, and the hope school foundation, Illinois not-for-profit corporations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.08; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $448K · 17 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $479K reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.