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Hope Scarves Inc

The mission of hope scarves is to support people facing cancer through scarves, stories, and research.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.3M
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$50,000
NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $75k → 7%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $75k → 16%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $50k → 22%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50k → 17%KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $40k → 21%METAVIVOR: $25k → 6%FUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $75k → 19%JAMES GRAHAM BROWN CANCER CENTER: $25k → 15%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $75k → 7%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $50k → 16%FUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $50k → 19%JAMES GRAHAM BROWN CANCER CENTER: $25k → 15%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $75k → 7%NORTON FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $75k → 7%NORTON FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $50k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $50k → 7%NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 6 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$1.3M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +162%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +3%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • AA
    American Association for Cancer Research Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -17%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +121%
  • BA
    BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +32%
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
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
2
J Walter Juckett Cancer Research Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
8
American Cancer Society Trust
—
9
Johnson & Johnson Foundation United States Inc
—
10
Kadet Cancer Research Foundation
—
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Foundation for Cardiovascular Research and Innovations
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metavivor Research and Support Inc; the most unlike its peers is James Graham Brown Foundation 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

10 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $525,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncJOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $400,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND INCNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCAmerican Association for Cancer Research Foundation: $50,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · HealthBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Health+1 more: $25,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…THE NORTON FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherJAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Other
Health$1,165,000Education$150,000Other$100,000

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $525,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $400,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NORTON FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES GRAHAM BROWN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 10 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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