Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

-$6,608

Total expenses

$8,141

Contributions and grants received

$3,844

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

-$11,990

Other revenue

$1,538

Total assets, end of year

$38,541

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$38,541

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$821

Management and general expenses

$7,320

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$821

Program services were 10.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE HOPE CENTER WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2010 AS AN OUTREACH PROJECT OF FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN DOWNTOWN RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA. INITIAL PLANNING FOR THE PROJECT WAS DRIVEN BY AN EXPRESSED NEED OF THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY AND/OR WITHOUT HOMES, NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCHES AND BUSINESSES, AND OTHER NON-PROFIT AGENCIES TO HAVE A DAY CENTER IN RAPID CITY THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE BASIC DAY SERVICES IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. THE HOPE CENTER IS MODELED AFTER THE ST. FRANCIS CENTER IN DENVER, COLORADO. THE HOPE CENTER CONCEPT INITIALLY BEGAN AS THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH BECAME INCREASINGLY INVOLVED WITH COMMUNITY AGENCIES THAT SERVE THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY AND THOSE WITHOUT HOMES. THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS BUILT WITH THE PEOPLE SERVED AND STAFF OF THESE VARIOUS AGENCIES, IT BECAME IMPORTANT AND APPARENT THAT THE CHURCH BECOME PART OF THIS SUPPORT IN SUBSTANTIAL, LONG-TERM WAYS BY OFFERING A MINISTRY AIMED AT SERVING THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY AND FILLING ANY GAPS IN SERVICES. GAPS IN SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES WERE DETERMINED THROUGH MANY MEETINGS WITH LOCAL AGENCY DIRECTORS AND IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT A TEAM VISIT THE ST. FRANCIS CENTER IN DENVER, COLORADO TO GATHER IDEAS FOR A POTENTIAL DAY CENTER IN RAPID CITY. AFTER THIS VISIT IT BECAME CLEAR THAT A DAY CENTER WAS AN ESSENTIAL AND UNDUPLICATED NEED FOR THE COMMUNITY OF RAPID CITY AND THE CHURCH WANTED TO HELP MEET THIS NEED. THE CHURCH BEGAN PURSUING FUNDING OPTIONS AND FORMED A COMMITTEE TO BEGIN CREATING THE HOPE CENTER. THE HOPE CENTER WAS ABLE TO OPEN IN A FULL-TIME CAPACITY IN 2011. IN JULY 2014, THE HOPE CENTER GAINED 501(C)3 STATUS. THE HOPE CENTER WAS A DROP-IN DAY CENTER WHICH OFFERS UNDUPLICATED, UNIQUE, AND CRUCIAL SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY FOR THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY, PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES, AND INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT HOPE. THE PRIMARY SERVICES OFFERED BY THE HOPE CENTER INCLUDED A MAILING CENTER, A TELEPHONE/MESSAGING CENTER, AND A STORAGE FACILITY FOR SHORT AND LONG TERM STORAGE AS WELL AS DOCUMENTS. THE HOPE CENTER OFFERED DAILY DEVOTION/PRAYER TIME AND WEEKLY CLASSES WHICH INCLUDED A SEWING CLASS, AN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS GROUP, BEADING/ARTS AND CRAFTS CLASSES, AND A COMPUTER CLASS. IN ADDITION TO THESE PRIMARY SERVICES, THE HOPE CENTER HAD INTRODUCED NEW SERVICES NECESSARY TO THE POPULATION SERVED IN ORDER TO INCREASE POSITIVE OUTCOMES AND HELP THE GUESTS OF THE CENTER MOVE TOWARD A BETTER LIFE. AFTER CLOSURE OF THE BUILDING (SEE SCHEULE O), THE HOPE CENTER CONTINUED TO OFFER ADVOCACY OPPORTUNITIES. A PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE HOPE CENTER IS TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE DISADVANTAGED IN THE COMMUNITY, PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT OF RESPECT AND ENCOURAGEMENT, AND TO BE A CONSTANT IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO OFTEN TIMES LACK STABILITY AND CONSISTENCY. THE HOPE CENTER AIMS TO BE A TRUSTED SOURCE OF SUPPORT BY BEING A SAFE AND STABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR GUESTS AS WELL AS BY FILLING GAPS IN SERVICES TO THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE LIVING IN POVERTY, WITHOUT HOMES, OR ARE WITHOUT HOPE. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS WORKING TO DETERMINE NEXT STEPS FOR THE HOPE CENTER.

  Expenses $821

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

1 distribution to a recipient named as a person, $215,000. Counted where the filer named the recipient as a person, as filed. Who received them, and what, are not published.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

4 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.0

Source object

202543089349302484

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