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Hope for the Homeless Foundation

To identify and financially partner with organizations in the portland area that are successfully helping men, women, and children gain stability in their lives so they are no longer homeless.

$300k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$210k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Hope for the Homeless Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHealthReligionHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving10$300k10%
FY20247$200k43%
FY20237$250k57%
FY20224$180k100%
FY20214$200k100%
FY20204$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$605kHuman Services$305kReligion$140kYouth Development$130kHealth$25kCivil Rights$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Braking Cycles$130,00046%
My Fathers House$130,00034%
Road to Hope Road 2 Hope Maternity Homes$95,00048%
Cityteam Ministries$90,00020%
Open House Ministries$85,00021%
The Salvation Army$85,0002n/a
Portland Rescue Mission$75,0002n/a
Union Gospel Mission$65,0002n/a
Agape Village$65,000226%
Path Home$60,00011%
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All grantees of Hope for the Homeless Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Braking Cycles$130,00046%
My Fathers House$130,00034%
Road to Hope Road 2 Hope Maternity Homes$95,00048%
Cityteam Ministries$90,00020%
Open House Ministries$85,00021%
The Salvation Army$85,0002n/a
Portland Rescue Mission$75,0002n/a
Union Gospel Mission$65,0002n/a
Agape Village$65,000226%
Path Home$60,00011%
Catholic Charities$55,0002n/a
New Avenues for Youth Inc$50,00010%
Blanchet House of Hospitality$40,00011%
Do Good Multnomah$40,00011%
Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers$40,00011%
Bradley Angle$30,00011%
Allone Community Services$30,00026%
The Miracles Club$25,00010%
Volunteers of America of Oregon Inc$25,00010%
Family Promise of Greater Washington County$15,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Hope for the Homeless Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBraking Cycles: $130,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetMy Fathers House: $130,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRoad to Hope Road 2 Hope Maternity Homes: $95,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetCityteam Ministries: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOpen House Ministries: $85,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAgape Village: $65,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetPath Home: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNew Avenues for Youth Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBlanchet House of Hospitality: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDo Good Multnomah: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHelping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBradley Angle: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAllone Community Services: $30,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetThe Miracles Club: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVolunteers of America of Oregon Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Greater Washington County: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 16.

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 Oregon Community FoundationOR20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Hoover Family Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Hope for the Homeless Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hope for the Homeless 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 Hope for the Homeless Foundation

How much does Hope for the Homeless Foundation give?
Hope for the Homeless Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Hope for the Homeless Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (49%), Human Services (25%), Religion (11%).
Who are Hope for the Homeless Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Braking Cycles ($130k), My Fathers House ($130k), Road to Hope Road 2 Hope Maternity Homes ($95k).
Does Hope for the Homeless Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hope for the Homeless Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation.
Where is Hope for the Homeless Foundation based?
Hope for the Homeless Foundation is based in OR.

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 20 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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