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Hope and Chance Foundation Inc

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.

$580
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$400
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$10kYouth Development$5kEmployment$2kInternational$540Education$400Philanthropy$232Health$180Other$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400
Median grant
2
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS$400
THE CHICK MISSION$180
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 (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SHE'S THE FIRST: $2k → 17%THE CHICK MISSION: $180 → 17%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 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
Girl Effect Inc

Girl effect works for a future in which every girl is in control of her body, her health, her learning and her livelihood. we work across africa and asia with adolescent girls and young women using the power of media and technology to…

Youth Development
2
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara

The organizations mission is to inspire all girls to be strong,smart, and bold, through research-based, innovative, and educational programs and activities.

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3
Girls Inc of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

Our mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold through direct service and advocacy. in partnership with schools and at our girls inc. center, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself,…

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4
Female Strong

Female strong is a 501c3 non-profit organization and a community of committed individuals that offer hands-on programs, mentorship, and experiences that build confidence in middle and high school girls. we support the inclusion of all…

Community Improvement
5
Digital Girl Incorporated

Digital Girl, Inc. (DGI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of New York City, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.

Education
6
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal
7
Girls Inc of Chicago

Girls inc of chicago provides programming for girls grades k-12 throughout the chicagoland area to inspire them to be strong, smart and bold. as developed by longstanding tax-exempt organization girls incorporated, our comprehensive…

Youth Development
8
Girls for a Change

Girls for a change is a national organization that empowers girls to create social change. we invite young women to design, lead, fund and implement social change projects that tackle issues girls face in their own neighborhoods.

Youth Development
9
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women and girls in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
10
Girls Incorporated of New York City

The mission of girls inc. of new york city is to advocate for and improve the lives of underserved girls and youth, ages 6 to 21+, in the five boroughs. we pursue this mission by providing research-based educational programs in the areas…

Civil Rights
11
Womens Campaign International

Women's campaign international (wci) empowers girls and women around the world to actively participate and fill leadership roles in the economy, community development, civil society, and pacebuilding efforts.

International
12
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is She's the First Inc; the most unlike its peers is Women for Women International. 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. 9 of the 15 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Photo Industries Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUnited Photo Industries IncWEORG: $5,000 · OtherWEORGIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $760 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $460 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPOP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS: $400 · OtherSPEAK UP AFRICA INC: $360 · OtherGIRLS INC: $2,700 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $500 · Youth DevelopmentEXPERIENCE CAMPSTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $360 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LOWER EAST S…SHE'S THE FIRST INC: $1,553 · Human ServicesTHE CHICK MISSION INC: $180 · Human ServicesEmpower Work Inc: $1,500 · EmploymentNETWORK FOR GOOD: $232 · Public Safety & DisasterWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $180 · International
Arts & Culture$10,000Other$7,980Youth Development$3,560Human Services$1,733Employment$1,500Public Safety & Disaster$232International$180

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 budgetUnited Photo Industries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS INC: $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHE'S THE FIRST INC: $1,553 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Work Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICK MISSION INC: $180 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.

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

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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 Hope and Chance Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hope and Chance Foundation 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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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