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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: November 2023 Expires: November 2025

Many Hopes

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards

255 West 93rd Street, #1N
New York, NY, 10025

Standards For Charity Accountability

Governance

  1. Board Oversight
  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

Fundraising & Info

  1. Truthful Materials
  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
  4. Donor Privacy
  5. Cause Marketing Disclosures
  6. Complaints

Many Hopes meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
"to equip children to become men and women who break cycles of injustice."

Year, State Incorporated:
2007, MA

Many Hopes reports that it works to help sustain, enhance and develop the resources, programs, and future expansion of organizations around the world that are rescuing, educating, and advocating for orphaned, abandoned, abused, or enslaved children. The organization works to generate public awareness of, and funds for, the organizations, schools, orphanages, and child rescue and rehabilitation programs and capital projects.

For the year ended December 31, 2022, Many Hopes's program expenses were:

Program services $2,847,791
Total Program Expenses $2,847,791

Chief Executive
Thomas Keown, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Compensation*
$23,850

Chair of the Board
Maxine Friedman

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Senior Vice President Growth, Bionic Solution

Board Size
7

Paid Staff Size
7

*2022 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

 

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Grant proposals, Internet, Direct mail appeals, Radio

Fundraising costs were 8% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $3,929,881, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Many Hopes's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022.

Source of Funds
Unrealized losses on investments, net $-126,506
Sales of assets other than inventory, net $-42,443
Special events, net $-28,856
In-kind contributions $3,056
Investment income $39,278
Contributions $3,560,387
Total Income $3,404,916

Programs: 78% Fundraising: 8% Administrative: 13%

Total Income $3,404,916
Total expenses: $3,633,521
  Program expenses $2,847,791
  Fundraising expenses $301,657
  Administrative expenses $484,073
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $-228,605
Beginning Net Assets $2,690,922
Other Changes In Net Assets $0
Ending Net Assets $2,980,425
Total Liabilities $32,258
Total Assets $3,012,683

Note: According to the organization's 2022 IRS Form 990, Many Hopes received in-kind contributions totaling $3,056 in the form of event supplies.

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Report completed by:
BBB Wise Giving Alliance