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Growing 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,274
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,274
Organizations funded a year
2 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$890k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Growing Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$8k50%
FY20242$7k0%
FY20234$12k50%
FY20228$26k13%
FY202118$41k39%
FY202011$47k9%
FY201915$31k53%
FY20187$31k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$46kEducation$45kYouth Development$44kHuman Services$43kReligion$20kEmployment$16kCommunity Improvement$14kHealth$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Empower Tanzania Inc$17,25042%
Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village$15,52540%
Accion International$14,00030%
Jeremiah Program$12,50040%
Salvation Army$12,5005n/a
Kickstart International Inc$10,60030%
Exchange Club Center for Family Unity$5,00012%
One Acre Fund$4,60030%
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc$4,50030%
Charity Global Inc$4,00020%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Growing Hope Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Empower Tanzania Inc$17,25042%
Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village$15,52540%
Accion International$14,00030%
Jeremiah Program$12,50040%
Salvation Army$12,5005n/a
Kickstart International Inc$10,60030%
Exchange Club Center for Family Unity$5,00012%
One Acre Fund$4,60030%
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc$4,50030%
Charity Global Inc$4,00020%
The Salvation Army$3,5003n/a
Smile Train Inc$3,00050%
Equal Justice Initiative$2,00010%
Heartland Pregnancy Center$1,50031%
Childfund International USA$1,42910%
Semcac$1,00010%
Teach for America Inc$60010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50010%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$50010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Growing Hope Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmpower Tanzania Inc: $17,250 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSylvester Broome Empowerment Village: $15,525 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAccion International: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJeremiah Program: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKickstart International Inc: $10,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetExchange Club Center for Family Unity: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOne Acre Fund: $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Pregnancy Center: $1,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetChildfund International USA: $1,429 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSemcac: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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How do I get to Growing Hope Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Growing Hope Foundation 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.

About Growing Hope Foundation

How much does Growing Hope Foundation give?
Growing Hope Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $8,474 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Growing Hope Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (19%), Education (19%), Youth Development (18%).
Who are Growing Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Empower Tanzania Inc ($17k), Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village ($16k), Accion International ($14k).
Does Growing Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Growing Hope Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Growing Hope Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Growing Hope Foundation based?
Growing Hope Foundation is based in MN.

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 29 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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