Rhode Island · Private foundation
Hope Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $285k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,575
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 66 | $285k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $240k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $231k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $295k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $291k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $240k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| School Year Abroad Inc | $148,229 | 6 | 1% |
| Gallatin Valley Land Trust | $115,416 | 6 | 1% |
| Blue School | $58,334 | 3 | 0% |
| Practical Farmers of Iowa | $45,315 | 6 | 0% |
| Rodale Institute | $42,943 | 5 | 0% |
| Acumen Fund Inc | $42,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Emmanuel Church | $35,450 | 4 | n/a |
| Preserve Rhode Island | $32,700 | 6 | 1% |
| The Preservation Society of Newport County | $31,250 | 5 | 0% |
| China Residencies Inc | $31,000 | 2 | 19% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($619k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hope Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to 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.
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About Hope Foundation
- How much does Hope Foundation give?
- Hope Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $285,206 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hope Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Arts & Culture (17%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: School Year Abroad Inc ($148k), Gallatin Valley Land Trust ($115k), Blue School ($58k).
- Does Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hope Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hope Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc, The Champlin Foundation.
- Where is Hope Foundation based?
- Hope Foundation is based in RI.
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