2025-09-30T20:55:54-04:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 743040161 HOPE FOR THE FUTURE HOPE 9166056460 9061 Pecor Way Orangevale CA 95662 D Christopher Brackett Treasurer 9166056460 2025-10-01 false 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X www.hopeforthefuture.org X X 88830 X 88480 350 0 629 -279 0 0 0 88201 69898 7355 77253 10948 81667 0 92615 81667 92615 81667 92615 81667 92615 Hope for the Future helps children in Romania overcome poverty by making education possible. Many grow up in families facing extreme poverty while others have lost parental care altogether. We step in with practical aid like groceries medicine school supplies and utility help that removes barriers to school and protects childhood. We also partner with childrens homes where orphaned or abandoned kids find love belonging and stability and we support after-school programs serving both Romanian and immigrant refugee children in Romania. Guided by our Christian faith we work through local volunteers and organizations to deliver practical help and long-term support. All U.S. work is volunteer keeping overhead low and impact high. Provides assistance to 20 to 25 families in Bucharest and 20 to 25 families in Alexandria Romania by supplying food school supplies medication and diapers as well as helping with utility bills home repairs and livestock. These practical resources strengthen struggling households promote self-sufficiency and ensure that children can remain in school instead of being forced onto the streets. 0 22000 BETHESDA FOUNDATION GALATI ROMANIA----DAY CENTER: The Day Center serves more than 50 children and parents. Kids receive tutoring hot meals showers clean clothes and guidance in life skills while parents are supported with groceries to help sustain their families. Together they find practical help and renewed hope that strengthens the entire household. ----GIRLS HOME: The Girls Home provides safe housing and a nurturing community for 8 to 12 young women who might otherwise face exploitation. Surrounded by caring mentors they build resilience pursue education and begin to see themselves not as victims but as young women with a future full of possibility. 47405 X 0 22000 Rodica Lack President 4 0 0 0 D Christopher Brackett Treasurer 1 0 0 0 A Monica Brackett Vice President 1 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false CA D Christopher Brackett 9061 Pecor Way Orangevale CA 95662 9166056460 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 31468 69252 74184 67593 88480 330977 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31468 69252 74184 67593 88480 330977 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 330977 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 0 0 31468 69252 74184 67593 88480 330977 1 1.00 0 0.00 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Sacramento Fundraiser 18827 18827 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Placerville Fundraiser 16810 16810 0 0 629 0 0 0 0 35637 35637 0 0 629 0 0 0 0 629 -629 Part I, line 10 | Activity:, Grantee Name:, Grantee Address:, Amount:, Relationship:| Program activity: Day center serves 50 to 100 kids and their families with tutoring meals showers laundry clothes teaching computer & other life skills. Girls Home provides housing for 8 to 12 girls. Temporary housing for 5 to 10 Ukrainian refugees at a time on a revolving basis., Bethesda Foundation, "Str. Oltului Nr. 9a Loc. Galati Jud. Galati 800424 Romania", $47405.00, None| Program activity: Day center serves 50 to 100 kids and their families with tutoring meals showers laundry clothes teaching computer & other life skills. Girls Home provides housing for 8 to 12 girls. Temporary housing for 5 to 10 Ukrainian refugees at a time on a revolving basis., Bethesda Foundation, "Str. Oltului Nr. 9a Loc. Galati Jud. Galati 800424 Romania", $493.00, None| Family Assistance Program poverty relief and basic needs assistance in Bucharest Romania and Alexandria Romania, grantee, "Family Assistance Program: Serves 20 to 25 in the region in and around Bucharest Romania and an additional 20 to 25 in the region in and around Alexandria Romania. Keeps kids in school and off the streets by providing low-income families assistance including food school supplies medication diapers assistance with paying utilities home repairs and livestock to promote self-sufficiency.", $22000.00, No Relationship| Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| Government Filing Fees, $436.00| Website, $375.00| Bank fees domestic, $87.00| Other administrative costs, $924.00| Bank and Wire Transfer Fees - direct program costs for programs in Romania, $151.00| Airfare - winter trip to Bethesda Foundation and summer youth mission trip to Romania volunteered at the Bethesda Foundation, $3920.00| Meals & travel incidentals train fare for winter trip to Bethesda Foundation and summer youth and young adults mission trip 3 volunteered at Bethesda Foundation, $833.00| Supplies and auction items for fundraiser dinner silent auction, $629.00| Our Form 990-EZ for the year ending December 31 2024 was not filed by the May 15 2025 deadline because our leadership was heavily focused on preparing for and coordinating our mission work in Romania and we unintentionally overlooked filing an extension. Once we became aware of the oversight we moved quickly to prepare and file the return. To prevent this from happening again we have developed a written compliance checklist that is now part of our boards governance documents ensuring that all required filings are tracked and completed on time. We respectfully request abatement of any late filing penalties as the delay was due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect.