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Giving Hope Inc

Giving Hope Exists to bring glory to God and to promote human dignity by alleviating the suffering of underserved individuals and families by providing them food, clothing, shelter, freedom, and true to our name, Giving Hope.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Community Improvement$370kInternational$269kHuman Services$80kFood & Nutrition$65kHousing & Shelter$35kYouth Development$34kReligion$25kHealth$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $143,958, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,602,260 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,458,302 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Other$71,342
Thrive New Orleans$35,416
Shaw High School$20,000
Sideline Pass$10,000
Devoted Dreamers$7,200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $468k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS: $25k → 5%LIFE ELDERCARE: $8k → 10%THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $189k → 23%TRI CITY VOLUNTEERS: $40k → 10%THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $139k → 23%Thrive New Orleans: $35k → 23%THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $19k → 23%THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $14k → 23%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$729k · 5 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +208% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$729k
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+208%
0%

Still filing today

100%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TN
    THRIVE NEW ORLEANS
    5× · 2018–2025 · $395k · revenue +233%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $236k · revenue +208%
  • NC
    NIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $37k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TV
    TRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -41%
  • CA
    COME ALIVE INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +138%
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
New Covenant Safe Haven

New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…

Human Services
2
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
3
City Hope San Francisco

In the tenderloin, we provide a trusted gathering place and creatively offer as many elements of home possible for our neighbors.

Human Services
4
San Diego Rescue Mission Inc

The san diego rescue mission, inc.'s (the organization") mission is to lovingly address the needs of men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, by sharing the good news of salvation and providing a holistic approach to…

Housing & Shelter
5
Next Door Ministries

The organization's purpose is to provide resources for men taking the next steps from recovery to a sustainable lifestyle. Our goal is to create a path to success for men struggling with a broken life pattern by providing a Christ-centered…

Religion
6
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

—
7
Philippians 3 13 Ministries

Transitional living for recovered addicts.

Health
8
Victory Life Church International

Church, religious

Religion
9
Life After Next

We promote healing and growth of oneself and within our communities.We walk with our members all the way home.

Crime & Legal
10
Unpack Incorporated

Unpack is a two-tiered approach to help women unpack the pain of their pasts as well as help them on the road to residency where they can unpack their things and make a home for themselves and their children. we work with single women…

Crime & Legal
11
Victory Mission

To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training

Human Services
12
Covenant House New Orleans

Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Devoted Dreamers Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $395,421 · Human ServicesTHRIVE NEW ORLEANSTRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INCLife Without Limbs: $25,000 · Human ServicesLife Without Limbs+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC: $236,001 · OtherNEW ORLEANS MISSION INCOther: $71,342 · OtherOtherNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $36,931 · OtherNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONSCOME ALIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,500 · OtherCOME ALIVE INTERNATIONAL INCARCHBISHOP SHAW: $20,000 · Other+7 more: $70,455 · Other+7 moreABODE SERVICES: $35,473 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BUENA PARK: $25,500 · Youth DevelopmentSON OF A SAINT: $8,150 · Youth DevelopmentSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 · Food & NutritionHERS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $13,500 · HealthDevoted Dreamers Foundation: $7,200 · Philanthropy
Human Services$468,421Other$467,229Housing & Shelter$35,473Youth Development$33,650Food & Nutrition$25,000Health$13,500Philanthropy$7,200

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $395,421 over 5y, 15% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC: $236,001 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $36,931 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetABODE SERVICES: $35,473 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BUENA PARK: $25,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife Without Limbs: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIFESTYLE CHRISTIANITY INC: $15,135 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHERS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $8,150 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.

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.

Fremont Bank Foundati…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fremont Bank FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fremont Bank Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Giving Hope Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giving Hope Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Giving Hope Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Giving Hope Inc 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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