Hope Emergency Program

Analysis

Hope Emergency Program is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Orab, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Hope Emergency Program reported income of $1.0m and spending of $891k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $1.0m (-21%), an average of -5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hope Emergency Program sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society of St Vincent de Paul Council of Upper Pinellas County ($1.0m), Matanah Bsesser of South Florida Inc ($1.0m) and The Samaritan Center Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $123k. At year end it held assets of $578k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $578k. It reported 9 employees.