Hopekids Inc.

“The organization does not have a committee that has authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“The form 990 is prepared by the organization's public accounting firm based on information provided by management. Once the draft is available, it is reviewed by management and the audit committee and any changes incorporated into the filing. Once this detailed review is complete, the draft of the form 990 is presented to the board of directors for their review and comments prior to filing with the irs.”

“All new board members are provided with the policy and required to sign it and annually it is reviewed by all members and signed. Potential conflicts are discussed at regular board meetings as they arise and are resolved.”

“Board uses current guidestar compensation report to determine comparable compensation. Compensation approvals are documented in board minutes. This process was last completed in december 2020.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the public upon request. The financial statements are also available on the website.”

“Our programs are designed to ensure that our hopekids and their family always have something to look forward to, rather than dwelling on what they are dealing with now; chemo, hospital stays, surgeries, therapy, etc. Our impacts are "hope and anticipation" - keeping our kids focused on the future, "family focus" - our events bring the family together in supportive activities when circumstances threaten to rip them apart. Our events offer fun for all family members, allowing them to spend much needed time together, "community & supportive relationships" - our hopeday and hopecommunity programs draw many families together in a unique and supportive environment for connection, sharing and encouragement. Our kids and families meet others just like them, "safety and acceptance" - in our supportive peer community no child is the only one wearing a mask, is bald or using a wheelchair. At hopekids, everyone is accepted and everyone belongs, "economic support" - all our events are pre-organized and available free of charge to our financially disadvantaged families. In response to covid we created a new virtual program of events where we were able to bring an entirely new and creative program to the families in the safety of their homes and their hospital beds and we were able to easily connect families across all chapters. We are very proud of what we created and the virtual program included events like meet and greets with pro athletes, story time with princesses, teen and parent book clubs, magic shows, cooking and craft classes, talent shows, movie streaming with dinner delivery and so much more. In total our six chapters (az, co, kc, mn, tn, tx) provided 2,691 program events with total program attendance of 48,078 people. Inspite of the pandemic we enrolled 348 new families to the program and our passionate volunteers helped us by providing more than 3,643 hours of service. As an organization we have learned a lot through covid and it has taught us a new and impactful way of serving our families that we are looking forward to continuing to provide as part of our regular programming.”

“The organization has outsourced its payroll function to insperity, a professional employer organization (peo), who pays the employees working for the organization and issues all w-2's under its fein. Therefore, the organization has reported 0 w-2's as it does not issue any w-2's under its fein.”

“The organization has not changed its oversight process or selection process during the tax year.”