· Private foundation
Focus on Hope Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCOTLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $5,269 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,077 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR HOMELESS | $905 |
| Individual grant recipient | $523 |
| SCOTLAND COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $150 |
| HOSPICE OF SCOTLAND COUNTY | $100 |
| SCOTLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS | $67 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMScotland Memorial Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +7%
- SMScotland Memorial Hospital Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $34k · revenue +32%
SAFECHILD2× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- DSDELANCEY STREET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SCSCOTLAND COUNTY ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $192
- THTHE HELPING HANDone grant, 2022 · $100
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.
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.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Hospice of lake cumberland offers compassionate care to patients and families struggling to cope with a life-threatening illness.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
Our mission is creating the best experience for those facing serious illness - every patient, every family, every time.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Schs is an animal welfare organization whose mission is to shelter, protect and promote the adoption of homeless animals as well as provide education about responsible pet ownership. schs also has a spay/neuter program to help reduce pet…
Provide hospice services, and educate the general public on the importance of superior quality hospice services.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Our mission is "enhancing health, life & survivorship" for those living with cancer in our community.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Provide meals for senior citizens
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Scotland Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Scotland Memorial Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Scotland County Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SCOTLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds SHE ROCKS 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.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Focus on Hope Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Focus on Hope Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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