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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by HOPE IN A SUITCASE.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,006,560
Total expenses
$811,672
Contributions and grants received
$970,774
Grants paid
$175,485
Program service revenue
$20,825
Investment income
$14,961
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$991,121
Total liabilities, end of year
$30,271
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$960,850
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$802,626
Management and general expenses
$8,400
Fundraising expenses
$646
Program service expenses (Part III)
$802,626

Program services were 98.9% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $50,000

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $920,774

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $370,088

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Children Services Clothing Distribution

    total $20,825 · related or exempt $20,825 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $15,210 · related or exempt $15,210 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $49,750 · other assets $0

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $49,999 · other assets $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$249 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$249 · related or exempt -$249 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $0

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $175,485 · program services $175,485

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $106,197 · program services $105,627 · management and general $570

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $3,170 · program services $3,170

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $9,860 · program services $9,860

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $246 · fundraising $246

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $7,592 · program services $5,947 · management and general $1,245 · fundraising $400

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $78,491 · program services $78,491

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $10,095 · program services $7,670 · management and general $2,425

  • 24a · Other expenses: Clothing and Household Items

    total $412,307 · program services $412,307 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Volunteer Appreciation Event

    total $4,160 · program services $0 · management and general $4,160 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Distribution Expenses

    total $4,069 · program services $4,069 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $151,612 · end of year $128,837

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $153,159 · end of year $300,186

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $11,700 · end of year $24,703

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $132,562 · end of year $135,668

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $23,000 · end of year $23,000

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $317,098 · end of year $378,727

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $19,635 · end of year $30,271

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $769,496 · end of year $960,850

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To provide children and teens entering and impacted by foster care with clothes, shoes, blankets, other essentials, and comfort items to help ease their transition. At a higher level, the mission is to spread awareness of the challenges facing children in foster care. Current programming is concentrated in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide children and teens entering foster care with clothes, blankets, other essentials, and comfort items to help ease their transition. In 2024, items have been distributed to 3,846 children.

  • To provide children and teens entering foster care with clothes, blankets, and other essentials.

    Expenses $802,626 · Grants $175,485 · Revenue $20,825

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Marsha Austen

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Andrew Horn

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Stacy Kravetz

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Amber Hartgens

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barbara Bartman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Roquesa Brown Jordan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eufe de la Torre

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Nicole Field

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Freeman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Lefton

    Director (start Sep 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Margaret Meenaghan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Danielle Sherrod

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jaime Schwartzberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
3 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202543089349300014

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