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HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY

EIN 41-1975574 SAINT PAUL, MN

Revenue 2024
$16,286,236
Expenses 2024
$14,188,692

Program services were 90.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B20
Classification
2000
Street
720 PAYNE AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF HOPE (HMONG OPEN PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION) COMMUNITY ACADEMY IS TO INSPIRE STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE HIGH ACADEMIC SUCCESS WHILE EMBRACING HMONG LANGUAGE AND CULTURE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

OPERATION OF AN ACCREDITED, PUBLIC CO-EDUCATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL IN ST. PAUL, MN.

  • HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY IS AN ACCREDITED PRE-K TO 12TH GRADE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL CONVENIENTLY LOCATED ON THE EASTSIDE OF ST. PAUL. THE ENTIRE SCHOOL COMMUNITY SEEKS TO PROVIDE A SAFE AND TRUSTING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT WHERE EACH STUDENT IS VALUED AND CHALLENGED TO GROW ACADEMICALLY, SOCIALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND PHYSICALLY. HMONG LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ARE ONE OF THE CORE COMPONENTS OF THE SCHOOLS FOCUS. IN FY2025, OVERALL STUDENT NUMBERS WERE 786.HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY FIRST OPENED ITS DOORS TO STUDENTS IN GRADES K-3 IN 2000. GRADE LEVELS WERE ADDED ANNUALLY UNTIL WE REACHED 8TH GRADE. IN 2020, IN ORDER TO GIVE STUDENTS A CONTINUOUS EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND DUE TO GROWING PARENT INTEREST, WE ADDED PRE-KINDERGARTEN AND HIGH SCHOOL TO OUR GRADE LEVEL OFFERINGS. THE 2024-25 SCHOOL YEAR WAS THE FOURTH YEAR OF HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY'S HIGH SCHOOL. IN JUNE 2025, HOPE SAW IT FIRST GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL CLASS.

    Expenses $12,810,923 · Revenue $31,046

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DON LORR

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRIAN SHAW

    TEACHER MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $65,147
    From this org
    $51,702
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,445
    Hours/week
    42

  • STACI AHRENS

    TEACHER MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $72,275
    From this org
    $65,945
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,330
    Hours/week
    42

  • PATCHIA XIONG VANG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIMBERLY WILDEBUER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HAYLEY BALL

    TREASURER (END 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REONA VANG

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAHNHIA LOR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • YANG LOR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LEE XIONG

    TEACHER MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $3,708
    From this org
    $3,410
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $298
    Hours/week
    42

  • MAYCHY VU

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (END 6/25)

    Total calculated
    $156,305
    From this org
    $129,045
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,260
    Hours/week
    41 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $129,045
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,694
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,566
    Filer's total
    $156,305

  • MELISSA DAMON

    PRINCIPAL/CO-INTERIM DIRECTOR(BEG 6/25)

    Total calculated
    $142,274
    From this org
    $108,683
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,591
    Hours/week
    41

  • MICHAEL REED

    PRINCIPAL/CO-INTERIM DIRECTOR (BEG 6/25)

    Total calculated
    $121,616
    From this org
    $103,045
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,571
    Hours/week
    41

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $16,286,236
    Expenses
    $14,188,692
    Contributions
    $16,254,851
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $14,183,051
    Expenses
    $13,785,260
    Contributions
    $14,196,240
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,152,866
    Expenses
    $13,828,765
    Contributions
    $13,146,918
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,651,347
    Expenses
    $11,835,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,881,057

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,388,548
    Expenses
    $9,623,959
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,239,866

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,891,852
    Expenses
    $7,904,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,252,689

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,438,127
    Expenses
    $7,080,475
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,309,528

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,251,978
    Expenses
    $8,386,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,276,951

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,261,981
    Expenses
    $8,825,362
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,453,977

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,218,260
    Expenses
    $7,672,374
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,034,078

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,634,778
    Expenses
    $6,580,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,330,260

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,271,000
    Expenses
    $6,233,796
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,725,255

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,251,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,759,321

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.