Warriors of Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922393854
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Orange, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7142968698
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,315
- Expenses
- $131,212
- Assets
- $8,436
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen N Vanderwatt (President)
- Zach Southall (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Karen N Vanderwatt (President)
- Marius K Vanderwatt (Treasurer)
- Zach Southall (Vice President)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To teach and preach the gospel to all people; to conduct evangelistic activities; to license and ordain ministers of the gospel; to provide religious, charitable and humanitarian services, facilitate rehabilitation through various forms of support.
What it reported doing in 2025
Warriors of Hope continued our focus on Community Outreach events, where we approach homeless and struggling people in the cities of Orange, Santa Ana and Anaheim, and preach the Gospel to them, while also taking care of immediate needs such as food, clothing and sleeping bags.This year WOH hosted a total of 4 large community events at two different venues, for Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. These events provided food and fellowship to supportive housing communities in Casa Querencia and The Orchard. Ongoing community outreach continued in the form of weekly Bible studies, breakfast meetings and other outreach events. We also continued to help needy families with documentation assistance eg like with the DMV, vehicle assistance as well as rent assistance.Weekly outreach outings to local parks in Santa Ana, Orange and Anaheim saw the distribution of warm clothing, sleeping bags and food.In Jesse's House, we housed 6 single mother families with a total of 8 kids. Jesse's House is a safe house program that we run from a house on Palm ave inOrange. We take in women and children that are down and out, andoften come from abusive situations. Once they pass screening wetake them in and provide for them. The plan is that they find work and graduate from the program within 6 months and move on to their own housing. During their stay we have Bible studies and budgeting life skills training to help them and their children.The Kia Spectra that was received as a donation is being used for program service needs.Warriors of Hope started a thrift store to help boost income to be used for program services. A DBA for Warriors of Hope Thrift was registered. Work commenced on the thrift store but it would not open until 2026. The physical location of the thrift store would also serve as a location for Bible studies and community events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 83.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -79.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.