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Hope Incorporated

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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$18kEducation$13kReligion$9kArts & Culture$9kHealth$5kScience & Tech$300Public Safety & Disaster$200Human Services$175Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 87% of grant dollars ($121k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($18k) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE: $2k → 10%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $30 → 14%BISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOY: $6k → 14%TN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $1k → 17%PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $100 → 7%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $1k → 8%GLEN ECHO VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $200 → 8%UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE: $1k → 10%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV: $3k → 14%TN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $1k → 17%RANDOLPH COLLEGE: $400 → 8%BISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOY: $3k → 14%HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $1k → 17%BISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOY: $1k → 14%HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $1k → 17%GEORGE WASHINTON INSTITUTE FOR SPIR: $300 → 14%GW INSTITUTE OF SPIRITUALITY AND HE: $250 → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDERAL: $41k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDERAL: $10k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDERAL: $10k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDERAL: $10k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDERAL: $5k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDERAL: $5k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDERAL: $3k → 14%CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY: $800 → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDERAL: $300 → 14%FRIENDS OF ST BENEDICT: $200 → 14%ALL HALLOWS GUILD: $100 → 14%MY DORM ROOM: $500 → 14%CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN: $2k → 14%CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN: $1k → 14%ORDER OF ST JOHN: $4k → 14%FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL: $500 → 14%CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN: $1k → 14%ORDER OF ST JOHN: $1k → 14%CHURCHES FOR MID EAST PEACE: $250 → 14%FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL: $200 → 14%CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN: $1k → 14%SAINT MATTHEW CHURCH: $61 → 14%CHURHCES FOR MID-EAST PEACE: $50 → 14%WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $25 → 14%COSMOS CLUB PRESERVATION: $200 → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $2k → 14%COSMOS CLUB PRESERVATION: $125 → 14%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $1k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW: $100 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $50 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $25 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
TX

Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($18k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Switzerland$18k · 3 grants
France$200 · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 13 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$125k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+76%

Still filing today

54%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PI
    PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +46%
  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +38%
  • UR
    United Religions
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • NT
    NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • CC
    CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $800
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
6
The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge

The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…

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7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
9
American College of Physicians

To enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine

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10
United States Naval Institute

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.

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11
American Political Science Association

The american political science association ("apsa") supports excellence in scholarship and teaching and informed discourse about politics, policy, and civic participation. the association promotes a lively, diverse community of scholars,…

Social Science
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Churches for Middle East Peace; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $83,625 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOY: $9,600 · OtherBISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOYIndividual grant recipient: $7,525 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRIST CHURCH PARISH OF GEORGETOWN: $4,900 · Other+17 more: $6,006 · OtherNational Gallery of Art: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $125 · Arts & CulturePRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $4,850 · Health+2 more: $45 · HealthTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $2,100 · EducationRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $1,600 · EducationTHE FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL IN THE UNITED STATES: $700 · EducationUnited Religions: $2,500 · ReligionGEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC: $100 · Human ServicesCHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $50 · International
Other$121,656Arts & Culture$5,125Health$4,895Education$4,400Religion$2,500Human Services$100International$50

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $4,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Religions: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15 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.

  • Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds United Religions ↗
  • Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 35 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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