Hope Lives Vive La Esperanza

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Financial Vulnerability Assessment (Tuckman-Chang)

4 risk indicators measuring financial stability and operational resilience

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Financial Trends

Organization Details

Formation Year

2011

Legal Domicile

Principal Officer

Debra Kurkoski

Phone

4802084010

Tax Period

2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30

Hope Lives Vive La Esperanza, founded in 2011, is a community nonprofit in the Human Services sector that reported $1.4M in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue fell 28% from the prior year — a significant decline worth monitoring. Expenses of $1.8M exceeded revenue, resulting in a 28% operating deficit.

Mission

Hope Lives is committed to promote mental health recovery and wellness thereby reducing recitivism and transforming lives

Program Service Accomplishments

Program 1

Expenses: $132,181

Nutrition kitchen (meals) is an innovative, fun, and inspirational cooking and nutrition workshop. These planning and cooking activities look comprehensively at a persons health life-style, meal...

Nutrition kitchen (meals) is an innovative, fun, and inspirational cooking and nutrition workshop. These planning and cooking activities look comprehensively at a persons health life-style, meal planning on a budget, cooking healthy from a food box, and how healthy eating shapes chronic conditions. This program focuses on a persons strengths, interests, and natural supports. It stresses creating healthy life-style habits and disiplines, provides education/awareness prevention activities, delivered by peer specialists topromote self- directed whole health.

Program 2

Expenses: $87,640

Community events/activities: equine therapy, gym, bowling, movies, hiking, swimming, budget shopping, travel training, laundry, haircuts, golf, and cultural area activities held out in the community...

Program 3

Expenses: $3,048

Training classes and programs held on campus: forensic peer support training, Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), anger management, domestic violence, GED, Applied Suicide Intervention (ASIST), jewelry making, self care, interpersonal communications, art, cooking, meditation/ spirituality, creative writing, and music appreciation. Forensic Peer Support Training is an agency developed training and certification process that enables individuals with lived experience in the behavioral health system to promote hope, personal responsibility, empowerment, education, and self determination in the communities they serve.

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Trantor Score

Financial Health Score (300–850) · Liquidity · Solvency · Sustainability · Efficiency

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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)

Financial Overview (2024)

Revenue Breakdown

Contributions & Grants $129,930

Program Service Revenue $1,241,474

Investment Income $25,901

Other Revenue $115

TOTAL REVENUE $1,397,420

Expense Breakdown

Grants Paid $0

Salaries & Benefits $1,059,479

Fundraising Expenses $0

Program Expenses $222,869

Other Expenses $723,150

TOTAL EXPENSES $1,782,629

Year-over-Year Comparison

	2024	2023	Change
Revenue	$1,397,420	$1,932,367	-0.3%
Expenses	$1,782,629	$1,789,119	0.0%
Net Income	$-385,209	$143,248	-3.7%

Key Indicators

✗ Grants to Organizations ✗ Grants to Individuals ✗ Lobbying ✗ Political Activity ✗ Foreign Activities ✗ Donor Advised Fund ✗ Schedule B Required

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Financial Health Indicators

Comprehensive financial analysis: Altman Z-Score, liquidity, solvency, sustainability, efficiency, and growth metrics

Financial Distress Indicator

Liquidity & Cash Position

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Altman Z-Score • Liquidity Ratios • Solvency Analysis • Growth Indicators • Efficiency Metrics

Governance

Voting Members

Independent Members

Employees

Volunteers

N/A

Governance Policies

✗ Conflict of Interest Policy

✗ Whistleblower Policy

✗ Document Retention Policy

Special Practices & Reported Activities

✗ Operated a School

✗ Operated a Hospital

✗ Provided First Class Travel

✗ Reported Conflict of Interest

✗ Reported Asset Diversion

✗ Excess Benefit Transaction

✗ Made Political Expenditures

✗ Engaged in Lobbying

✗ Operated Donor Advised Fund

✗ Maintained Art Collections

✗ Filed Form 720

Compensation of Officers, Directors & Key Employees

Total Officers

Total Directors

Key Employees

Highest Compensated

reported

Name	Title	Hours/Week	Role	Reportable Comp	Other Comp	Total
CHRISTOPHER GONZALEZ	secretary	2.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
JOSE COLON	board member	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
MOSES ANGRY	board member	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
CRAIG BRETT	president	2.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
KATHY DZIELINSKI	vice president	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
CHRISTOPHER SWEENEY	Board member	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
CYRSTIN GUARDINO	board member	1.00	Director	$0	$0	$0
DEBRA KURKOSKI	CEO	45.00	Officer	$0	$0	$0

Note: Compensation data is self-reported by the organization on their Form 990. "Reportable Comp" includes salary, bonuses, and other reportable compensation from the organization and related organizations. "Other Comp" includes benefits, deferred compensation, and non-taxable benefits.

Historical Data

Year	Revenue	Expenses	Assets	Net Income
2025	$1,397,420	$1,782,629	$2,701,315	$-385,209
2024	$1,932,367	$1,789,119	$2,865,415	$143,248
2023	$1,401,085	$1,736,095	$3,077,408	$-335,010
2022	$1,878,077	$1,502,341	$2,004,055	$375,736
2021	$1,141,356	$1,373,892	$1,770,471	$-232,536
2020	$1,290,032	$1,356,263	$1,573,046	$-66,231