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Brittany's Hope

Recognizing the fundamental rights of all children, we empower families and communities to make real and lasting change in the lives of orphaned and at-risk children through international special needs adoption grants and humanitarian initiatives.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.4MInternational$1.0M
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $220,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,080,764 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $860,764 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$27,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION$50,000
ALL GOD'S CHILDREN$50,000
HOLT INTERNATIONAL$48,000
CHILDREN'S HOUSE INTERNATIONAL$27,000
LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS$20,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT$15,000
WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $132k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $110k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $110k → 15%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $110k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $58k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 15%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $85k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $122k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $48k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $97k → 15%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $80k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $120k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $43k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $64k → 15%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $71k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $110k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $40k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $61k → 15%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $140k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $51k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $38k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 15%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $50k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $18k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $48k → 15%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $110k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $15k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $36k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $818k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$499k · 61% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: ORPHAN CARE

Sub-Saharan Africa$319k · 39% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: ORPHAN CARE

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 7 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$3.4M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AG
    ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +38%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +36%
  • BC
    BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $270k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • LF
    LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +21%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wacap World Association for Children and Parents

WACAP (World Association for Children and Parents) believes every child deserves a family. A leading child-humanitarian aid and adoption agency, WACAP is driven by the mission to serve orphans and vulnerable children without families.…

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2
Adopt International

To assist people in adopting domestic and international children educate families about adoption and provide counseling to birth parents

Human Services
3
Carolina Adoption Services Inc

Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.

Human Services
4
United in Love Adoptions
Human Services
5
Hope's Promise Inc

To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.

Human Services
6
Hand in Hand Christian Adoption Inc
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7
Hope for the Fatherless

HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…

International
8
Deliver Rescuing Children At Risk

Finding forever homes for children

Human Services
9
Child Hope International

Reuniting children living in Haitian orphanages with their loving families and providing support to empower them to stay together.

Arts & Culture
10
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
11
Heartsent Adoptions Inc

Heartsent Adoptions Inc is a full service domestic and international adoption agency that provides assistance and education to adopting parents and families.

Human Services
12
Hope Adoption Inc

Adoption Counseling/International Adoption: To unite orphaned children from around the world with loving adoptive families to provide educational programs and continuing services to these families and to provide humanitarian aid to the…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Christian Services; the most unlike its peers is Madison Adoption Associates Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD: $728,150 · Human ServicesMADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTDHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $566,000 · Human ServicesHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INCWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $483,000 · Human ServicesWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INCCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $370,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTABETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $270,000 · Human ServicesBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES+1 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $530,000 · InternationalALL GOD'S CHILDREN…LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $20,000 · InternationalCHILDRENS HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $429,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOUS…
Human Services$2,467,150International$550,000Other$429,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD: $728,150 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $566,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $530,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $483,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDRENS HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $429,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $370,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $270,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD ↗
  • Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS HOUSE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Our RescuePure IncUnited Way WorldwideNatl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Our RescueUT15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Our Rescue · Pure Inc · United Way Worldwide · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brittany's Hope funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brittany's Hope. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Brittany's Hope?

    Find your warmest path to Brittany's Hope through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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