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Hope Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k64 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $20,986 |
| DATMA | $20,000 |
| SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD | $17,693 |
| EMMANUEL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CODEPINK | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NE | $5,000 |
| ISSUE PROJECT ROOM | $5,000 |
| THE CITY | $5,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $5,000 |
| PRESERVE RI | $5,000 |
| MOFGA | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SYSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +18%
- GVGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +66%
- PFPRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +384%
Funded once
- CLCONTRIBUTION LESS THAN 5000 AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTone grant, 2020 · $67k
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKone grant, 2020 · $10k
- AFACUMEN FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Random Acts of Silliness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BLUE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds CHINA RESIDENCIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
- Who funds ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Anne and David B Ford Jr Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · Rhode Island Council for the Humanities · Winifred M Purdy Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hope Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Brookline Teen Center — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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