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HOPE INSTITUTE

EIN 38-4043281 JEFFERSON CTY, TN

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Revenue 2025
$468,000
Expenses 2025
$557,856

Program services were 79.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T50
Classification
1000
Street
919 W JEFFERSON ST

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 · 2025

Mission

TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF HIGH-RISK ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN BY IMPROVING QUALITY OF CARE AT ORPHANAGES WORLDWIDE THROUGH THE SHARING AND REPLICATION OF EXPERIENCE-GARNERED, RESEARCH-PROVEN PROTOCOLS AND METHODOLOGIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF HIGH-RISK ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN WORLDWIDE.

  • CHANGING THE LVIES OF ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD BY TRANSFORMING THE CARE SYSTEMS IN WHIHCH THEY LIVE.

    Expenses $444,111

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Stan Pierson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sean Rutter

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adreanna Watts

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Phillip Smith

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Swigart

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rickie Long

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jim Anthony

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jessie Sanders

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul Attia

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Patricia De Parras

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Nowell

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $116,314
    From this org
    $79,308
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,006
    Hours/week
    50

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $468,000
    Expenses
    $557,856
    Contributions
    $433,105
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $416,460
    Expenses
    $525,951
    Contributions
    $416,351
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $555,894
    Expenses
    $504,483
    Contributions
    $555,912
    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
    $382,965
    Expenses
    $401,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $98,498

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $453,394
    Expenses
    $362,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $116,946

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
David Z Nowell
Mailing address
919 W JEFFERSON STREETJEFFERSON CITY TN 37760

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.