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Carrier of Hope Foundation at a glance

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Carrier of Hope Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$20kHuman Services$20kFood & Nutrition$15kEducation$9kCrime & Legal$5kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Action Center$15,000
The Chick Mission$10,000
Food Bank of Rockies$5,000
Alaska Community Foundation$5,000
The Tinina Q Cade Foundation$5,000
Colorado Healing Fund$4,000
Bayaud Works$3,470
Colorado School of Mines Foundation$3,000
Individual grant recipient$1,300
Mary Lillard Intermediate PTA$1,300
Second Harvest Food Bank Feeding South Louisiana$1,000
Allen Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry$1,000
Summertown High School$1,000
The GrowHaus$1,000
Food for Hope$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Chick Mission: $10k → 17%The Tinina Q Cade Foundation: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NY
OR
CA
CO
MO
MD
KS
TN
LA
TX
FL
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.
03Its 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
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
2
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Bank of the Rockies

Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
5
Coralville Community Food Pantry

We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
7
The Food Foundation

To provide a much-needed third meal of the day to food-insecure children.

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8
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
Arkansas Foodbank

None

Food & Nutrition
10
Feeding Colorado

The mission of feeding colorado, which represents the five feeding america food banks in the state, is to improve food security in colorado through policy, advocacy, partnership, and education.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
12
Montana Food Bank Network Inc

Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeffco Action Center Inc the Action Center; the most unlike its peers is Allen Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry and Clothing Closet. 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

17 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. 17 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
5/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $15,000 · OtherJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTERGenesis Womens Shelter: $5,000 · OtherGenesis Womens ShelterFood Bank of Rockies: $5,000 · OtherFood Bank of RockiesBayaud Works: $3,470 · OtherBayaud WorksMary Lillard Intermediate PTA: $2,500 · OtherDonna Shepard Leadership Academy PTA: $2,321 · Other+14 more: $14,068 · Other+14 moreTHE CHICK MISSION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICK MISSION IN…TININA Q CADE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTININA Q CADE FOUNDA…ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $5,163 · Crime & LegalTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,050 · Civil RightsThe Alaska Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyColorado Healing Fund: $4,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education
Other$47,359Human Services$15,000Crime & Legal$5,163Civil Rights$5,050Philanthropy$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,000Education$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $5,163 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTININA Q CADE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetColorado Healing Fund: $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,268 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEN MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE FOOD PANTRY AND CLOTHING CLOSET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GROWHAUS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING LOUISIANA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING FLORIDA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Denver FoundationCO12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Carrier of Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carrier of Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Feeding Florida Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 27 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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