2025-09-28T15:53:56-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 202432585 HOPE FOR HONDURAN CHILDREN FOUNDATION HOPE 2164031051 19020 Shaker Boulevard Shaker Heights OH 44122 John Godt Director 2164024845 2025-08-20 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Karen Godt 19020 Shaker Blvd Shaker Heights OH 44122 197088 0 X www.HopeForHonduranChildren.org X 2005 OH Our mission is to protect, inspire, nurture, educate, train, and challenge disadvantaged vulnerable Honduran children. We mentor and provide opportunities to help them reach their full potential and become self-sufficient, caring, responsible adults. 9 8 1 100 0 0 76897 50085 103874 78246 19871 28664 0 0 200642 156995 145464 104892 0 0 45341 45334 0 0 227 17722 19232 208527 169458 -7885 -12463 743333 744200 0 0 743333 744200 Our mission is to protect, inspire, nurture, educate, train, and challenge disadvantaged vulnerable Honduran children. We mentor and provide opportunities to help them reach their full potential and become self-sufficient, caring, responsible adults. Extreme poverty, lack of opportunity, drugs and gang violence contribute to a catastrophic struggle for human survival in Honduras. Most at risk are rural youth who migrate to the cities in search of opportunity where they are confronted with hunger, unemployment, disease, drug cartels, and brutal gangs specializing in trafficking, killings, kidnappings, rape and extortion. A United Nations Global Study advocates strong investment in education and employability for vulnerable children, youth, orphans, and those without access to public services. These are the children the Hope for Honduran Children Foundation works to serve, educate, and provide opportunities. 0 0 123795 96487 43351 EDUCATION AND SPONSORSHIP The United Nations reports that Honduras has the worst educational system in Central America and 51% of Honduran children receive no education after sixth grade. Extreme poverty and lack of education are very pressing problems that are prevalent for 75% of the population living in the mountain villages. In the rural communities most adults are unemployed and 2 in 10 are illiterate. Without the benefit of a good education, the population we serve has no possible escape from their cycle of deplorable poverty. In 2024 H4HC provided scholarships for 14 university scholars plus 4 high school students in our 2 residential homes. Additional support was provided to three students not living in our residences. Our long-term residential program requires exemplary character and academic focus while students are provided safe shelter, food, a quality education, clothing, medical care and abundant love. It is a family environment with rigorous expectations. The students quickly learn the benefits of integrity, self-discipline and honor and are supported through their studies at the university. H4HC students are thriving and graduates quickly find excellent employment. 32709 8375 26595 PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROGRAM & CULTURAL EXCHANGE TRIPS - There is no better classroom than the world itself and no more impactful lesson than immersion into the vibrant and loving, yet impoverished Honduran culture. Immersion trips are an integral part of the foundation's success with each trip designed to make a sustainable difference in the lives of the Honduran children, their families, the local communities, and the lives of our service volunteers. In 2024 there were two week-long trips (February and June). The trips offer a myriad of opportunities such as: 1) to engage in meaningful interaction with children & local villagers 2) to immerse yourself in a diverse and meaningful cultural experience 3) to enhance your global awareness 4) to bring much needed supplies to isolated villages 5) to change the world of a child in desperate need 6) to establish impactful relationships with our residential students. 4852 30 8300 SPECIAL PROJECTS - are those for which Hope for Honduran Children raises special funding to offset the costs of planning, implementation and continuation. Our Feed A Village program is extremely impactful. In 2024, the program helped to support several isolated and impoverished communities providing them with educational assistance, food, shoes, clothing, vitamins, medical and educational supplies. Scholarships were awarded to three university students, one student to medical school, one student to nursing school, and four students to high school. H4HC also brought support to the local Center for the Blind and internet connection to the local Santa Lucia high school. H4HC makes a meaningful and sustainable difference in the lives of rural Honduran Children as the foundation firmly believes that "A child without education is like a bird without wings." 0 0 0 161356 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 9 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 OH X John Godt 2164024845 19020 Shaker Boulevard Shaker Heights OH 44122 Karen Godt Executive Director 50 0 X X 42000 0 0 John Godt Director 40 0 X 0 0 0 Michael Ausperk Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Richard Bedell Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Grant Cathcart Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Yvonne Hsu Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 Mark LaRose Direstor 0 0 X 0 0 0 Hugh O'Neill IV Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 William Peacock Director 0 0 X 0 0 0 42000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50085 0 50085 Education & Sponsorship 900099 43351 43351 0 0 Honduran Immersion Sertvice 900099 26595 26595 0 0 Specific Projects 900099 8300 8300 0 0 0 0 0 0 78246 28974 28974 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39783 0 40093 0 -310 0 -310 -310 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156995 106910 0 0 0 0 0 0 104892 104892 42000 40530 1260 210 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3334 3217 100 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1594 704 890 0 5550 2775 2775 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8853 8512 341 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1791 0 1791 0 Bank fees 1074 726 348 0 government fees 370 0 370 0 169458 161356 7875 227 31849 75584 93667 5664 0 0 19100 8000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 598717 654952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 743333 744200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 566130 561494 177203 182706 743333 744200 743333 744200 X -12463 13328 0 0 0 2 X 0 0 0 X 100345 214725 108421 76022 50085 549598 54077 100334 109307 104749 78245 446712 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 154422 315059 217728 180771 128330 996310 0 0 0 0 0 0 7150 135900 51407 21404 850 216711 7150 135900 51407 21404 850 216711 779599 10039 4128 6607 19033 28974 68781 0 0 0 0 0 0 10039 4128 6607 19033 28974 68781 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 164461 319187 224335 199804 157304 1065091 0.73196 0.73364 0.06458 0.04203 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 Central America and the Caribbean 0 0 Program Services Education and Sponsorship 96452 Central America and the Caribbean 0 0 Program Services Immersion Service 4891 0 0 101343 Central America and the Caribbean Education and Scholarchop 84989 Wire Transfer 0 1 0 Scholarship and Educational Assistance Central America and the Caribbean 25 11443 Wire Transfer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 Grants and other assistance outside the United States from the Hope for Honduran Children Foundation (H4HC) are monitored through internet and telephone communication, on-site inspections, and verification by directors and volunteers of H4HC. Schedule F, Part II, Line 1 Accounting method used to account for cash grants was based on actual expenditures Schedule F, Part III Accounting method used to account for cash grants was based on actual expenditures. Number of recipients was estimated based on number of students served. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Karen Godt, Executive Director, is the spouse of John Godt, Director Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b The organization does not maintain committees with authority to act on behalf of the governing body Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b form 990 is sent to each voting member electronically prior to its filing Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 During 2024, no requests were made for the organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, or financial statements. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Adjustment for rounding error Form 8868, "Application Automatic Extension ..." filed. Extension was approved by IRS March 31, 2025