Wills Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461525821
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7192105625
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,607
- Expenses
- $27,801
- Assets
- $39,354
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sarah Squire (President & Director)
People named in this filing
- Sarah Squire (President & Director)
- Mark Squire (Treasurer, Secretary & Director)
- Jo Carroll (Director & Financial Oversight)
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
Immersion Outdoor Educational & Self-Healing Programs for Veterans and Young Adults
What it reported doing in 2025
Will's Hope Young Adult Programs are for young adults that have been stigmatized because of their mental illness, disabilities & other conditions such as Autism. The program empowers young adults to see their value and improves self-confidence. The program has saved & enriched many lives. Young adults see the good in themselves and the good in the world as well as learning that a disability is a strength. Young adults experience success and see for themselves that they are so much more capable than what they have been led to believe through stigmatization and other social slighting. No young adult program was run in 2025. 6 young adults where scheduled for an August 2025 program but an emergency medical issue with a program leader caused us to cancel the program. Long term a local jurisdiction in the GYE would not permit a facility expansion to move forward for lodging and activities that may be conducted at the lodge in conjunction with outdoor activities throughout the GYE. Given the previous we put the Will's Hope Programs in an "Operational Pause".
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
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 0
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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -395.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.