Warehouse of Hope
Legal name: Warehouse of Hope Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582645460
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Douglasville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 770-489-0509
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $452,190
- Expenses
- $374,024
- Assets
- $684,783
- Liabilities
- $3,071
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMMA FINGER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
People named in this filing
- EMMA FINGER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- TOM PANTER (TREASURER)
- LARRY HUNTER (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To render assistance in the name of jesus christ to persons in need of food, clothing, or other necessities of life. goes further than providing families with food. We strive to show them and teach them the love of Christ. A simple gesture of kindness can go along way for someone who thinks all hope is gone. _Last year we served over 122,000 individuals. We served over 6,000 Kids with our Summer Lunch Program. Over 900 people have turned their lives over to Christ during our first-time guest orientation._ _For over 30 years, by the grace of God and through our supporters, we have been able to expand. We cannot do this without your love, your prayers, and your financial support. Please continue to support us so we can do this for 100+ more years!_.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided food to the needed and homeless, assist families in need with medical and housing needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, and 48% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $374K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.