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← SEWHOPE INC

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by SEWHOPE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$670,054
Total expenses
$604,295
Contributions and grants received
$493,926
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$7,651
Other revenue
$168,477
Total assets, end of year
$724,021
Total liabilities, end of year
$3,679
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$720,342
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$528,027
Management and general expenses
$24,754
Fundraising expenses
$51,514
Program service expenses (Part III)
$528,027

Program services were 87.4% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $493,926

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $75,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $6,673 · excluded $6,673

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $75,978

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

    securities $75,000

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $978

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $978 · related or exempt $978

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $186,794

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $22,200

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $164,594 · excluded $164,594

  • 11a · Other revenue: REIMBURSED FEES

    total $3,883 · excluded $3,883

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $3,883

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $61,660 · program services $3,016 · management and general $15,834 · fundraising $42,810

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $3,520 · program services $282 · management and general $1,478 · fundraising $1,760

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $200 · management and general $200

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $3,082 · management and general $3,082

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,115 · program services $1,115

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $5,776 · program services $725 · management and general $283 · fundraising $4,768

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $2,890 · management and general $2,890

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $30,679 · program services $30,679

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM SERVICES

    total $430,236 · program services $430,236

  • 24b · Other expenses: CONTRACT LABOR

    total $54,330 · program services $54,330

  • 24c · Other expenses: BANK FEES

    total $4,105 · program services $1,560 · management and general $369 · fundraising $2,176

  • 24d · Other expenses: FOREIGN TRANSLATION

    total $3,259 · program services $3,259

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $3,443 · program services $2,825 · management and general $618

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $104,847 · end of year $81,766

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $149,583 · end of year $217,019

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $89,813 · end of year $84,992

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $481,590

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $142,708

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $313,659 · end of year $338,882

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $1,362

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $3,319 · end of year $3,679

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $654,583 · end of year $720,342

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO PARTNER WITH THE POOR, MARGINALIZED AND EXPLOITED IN GUATEMALA TO HELP END THE INJUSTICES OF POVERTY AND BRING ABOUT SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES.

  • EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2024: - OUR ADDITIONAL CLASSROOM WAS BUILT AND READY FOR THE 2025 SCHOOL YEAR - SEINER LOPZ IS OUR FULL-TIME PRINCIPAL - TWO NEW TEACHERS WERE HIRED FOR PARVULOS AND 5TH GRADE - TEACHERS WORKED ON KHAN ACADEMY TIME EACH WEEK TO IMPROVE THEIR MATH SKILLS - FOR 2024: 8,040 MINUTES AND 555 SKILLS MASTERED, ALL WORKING AT LEAST AT THE 4TH GRADE LEVEL - REGULAR EDUCATION MEETINGS HAVE BEEN HELD EACH MONTH ADI CONTINUES TO TRANSLATE - STUDENTS - RAZ KIDS - 35,290 BOOKS LISTENED TO; 35,512 BOOKS READ - STUDENTS - KHAN ACADEMY MATH SKILLS - IMPROVED ON 13,027, 103 PER STUDENT - MASTERED 9,733, 77 PER STUDENT - DISTRIBUTION OF CROSSES TO STUDENTS DURING MAY VISIT, HELP FROM MAUMEE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH YOUTH - COMMUNICATION WITH SPONSORS INCLUDED A HANDMADE CARD IN MAY AND A CHRISTMAS CARD IN DECEMBER - VISIT FROM THE GUATEMALAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION TO DISCUSS 2025 SCHOOL YEAR - HELD MEETING WITH TEACHERS TO GO OVER RAZ AND KHAN ACADEMY AND HOW TO ASSIST STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE MORE - WE GAVE THE STANDARDIZED TEST THAT WAS GIVEN TO US BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION ONE TIME. MOST KIDS GOT 100%, DECIDED NOT TO GIVE IT AGAIN, VERY TIME CONSUMING TO GRADE - TWO NEW DESKTOP COMPUTERS WERE PURCHASED THROUGH MONEY DONATED AT LEAP FUNDRAISER - STUDENTS RECEIVED VACCINATIONS - PLANTED NEW TREES ON SITE WITH STUDENTS CARING FOR THEM - STUDENTS HAD GUEST SPEAKERS THAT SHOWED THEM POSSIBILITIES OF FUTURE CAREERS - WE HELD A METRIC OLYMPICS WITH STUDENTS ESTIMATING AND MEASURING ACTUAL DISTANCES OF VARIOUS EVENTS - WE HAD OUR FIRST FAMILY MOVE NIGHT SHOWING THE MOVIE VIVO - OUR PEN PAL PROGRAM WITH MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCLUDED LETTERS AND ZOOM CALLS - VBS WAS HELD RIGHT AFTER SCHOOL WAS COMPLETED, 125 STUDENTS WERE IN ATTENDANCE; STUDENTS ALSO HAVE BIBLE STUDY EACH DAY AT SCHOOL - A FAMILY FUN DAY WAS HELD AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. MEMBERS OF THE STAFF, FAMILIES AND THE COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER AND PAID FOR AND POURED A CONCRETE SLAB PERFORMANCE AREA FOR THE SCHOOL AND STUDENTS' USE - SEINER SECURED MANY DONATIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY FOR EXTRA ACTIVITIES

    Expenses $214,232

  • HEALTH PROGRAM: - 11 HOSPITALS, HEALTH DISTRICTS AND CLINICS SENT PAPS TO SEWHOPE'S CYTOLOGY LAB - HELD 104 JORNADAS (MEDICAL TEAM VISITS TO OUTLYING COMMUNITIES), AVERAGING 8-9 A MONTH - 5,600 CERVICAL CANCER SCREENINGS AND 321 PROCEDURES WERE PERFORMED - HOSTED WORKSHOPS FOR LOCAL CYTOLOGISTS AT SEWHOPE'S HEALTH CENTER ON PROPER CYTOLOGY TECHNIQUE - 3 MISSION TRIPS INCLUDED: - 7 VOLUNTEER CYTOLOGISTS FROM THE US AND PUERTO RICO - 3 VOLUNTEER OGBYNS (CALIFORNIA, MICHIGAN AND OHIO) - 1 VOLUNTEER ONCOLOGIST - MAYRA SEWHOPE'S LEAD (LOCAL) CYTOLOGIST PARTICIPATED IN: - THE 1ST LATIN AMERICAN MEETING OF CYTOLOGISTS - THE 1ST MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS OF THE SAN BENITO HOSPITAL - THE "WOMEN'S RIGHT TO ACCESS HEALTH CARE FOR THE PREVENTION OF BREAST AND CERVICAL CANCER" FORUM

    Expenses $143,967

  • COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: - 27 STOVES AND 38 WATER FILTERS WERE INSTALLED - 750 FISH WERE RAISED AND SOLD - 200 CHICKENS WERE RAISED BY 30 STUDENTS, 1,130 WERE RAISED BY WOMEN'S GROUPS AND 22 INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES - 70 STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED IN ACTIVITIES, AND 43 FAMILIES WERE IMPACTED BY CD PROJECTS - 2 WOMEN'S COOPERATIVE GROUPS, WITH 9 MEMBERS EACH. TOTAL, THE GROUPS SAVED AND EARNED APPROXIMATELY 9,100 - SMALL KITCHEN OUTSIDE OF THE CLINIC WAS BUILT FOR THE WOMEN'S CO-OP MEMBERS TO USE - 677 BOXES OF KCAH FOOD WAS DELIVERED TO 60 EXTREMELY POOR FAMILIES ON A MONTHLY BASIS

    Expenses $152,590

  • - A FOOD PACKING EVENT WAS HELD IN THE UNITED STATES. THE FOOD IS A DRIED COMBINATION OF EASILY DIGESTIBLE PROTEIN, CARBOHYDRATES, AND VITAMINS NEEDED BY AN UNDERNOURISHED CHILD'S BODY AND MIND. 60,000 MEALS WERE PACKED IN 4 HOURS BY 250 VOLUNTEERS. AN ADDITIONAL 190,000 MEALS WERE DONATED AND ALL WERE SHIPPED TO GUATEMOLA ALONG WITH SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN OUR PROGRAMS IN GUATEMALA.

    Expenses $17,238

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Timothy Kuhn Be

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Gloria Buganski

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Anne Ruch MD

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • David Mallory MD

    MEDICAL & ED

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Gary Collins MD

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Randall Ruch PhD MPH

    VICE CHAIRMA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Roxanne Ward Med

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Dorothea Sawicki PhD

    EDUCATION CO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Gregory Smith PhD

    EDUCATION CO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • ASSOCIATION CIVIL SEWHOPE ASSOCIATION CIVIL SEWHOPE

    INDIGENT R · GU · income $20,090

    Directly controlled by ASSOCIATIO ASSOCIATION

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
29 October 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202503169349305300

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