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Hope Universal Inc

Hope universal exists to serve mankind by ministering to both spiritual and physical needs throughout the world in the name of jesus christ

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Religion$691kInternational$531kHuman Services$127kEducation$43kArts & Culture$35kPhilanthropy$6kFood & Nutrition$5kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$9,145
Median grant
10
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN IN CHRIST$58,000
WORD MADE FLESH$56,800
EVERY ORPHANS HOPE$40,366
INDIA MEDICAL MISSIONS ASSISTANCE$16,000
INTERSERVE$15,000
HOPE FORCE INTERNATIONAL$13,000
Individual grant recipient$9,145
TOGETHER WOMEN RISE$6,250
HOME OF HOPE INDIA$5,000
NO LONGER ABANDONED$5,000
JERICHO MINISTRIES$5,000
JAMAICA RELIEF MISSION$5,000
BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMES OF NC$400
GLOBAL TRIBES OUTREACH$400
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 38% of Hope Universal Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Hope Universal Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 39% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 18 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$1.3M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+4%

Still filing today

50%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CO
    Children of Character Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $282k · revenue +25%
  • EO
    EVERY ORPHANS HOPE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $247k · revenue +14%
  • HF
    Hope Force International
    3× · 2022–2025 · $68k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • NL
    NEW LIFE HOME
    one grant, 2024 · $31k
  • IL
    INCA LINK INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +146%
  • HI
    HORIZON INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -65%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Oceans of Mercy

Missionary work in the nation of India

Religion
2
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
3
Orphans Hope International
4
Kids for Him

assisting orphans and missionary in need

International
5
Zion Orphan Home
6
Maranatha Mission

Missionery outreach

7
One With God

To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children

Health
8
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

9
Sowers Ministry Inc

Humanitarian / EducationSOWERS stands for Serving Orphans Widows Educating & Reaching Society.Founded in 2001 by Rev. Jayakumar Babu Salluri, Pastor Jay, God has used this ministry to educate 1,048 pastors, start and support 170 village…

Religion
10
Global Commission Partners Inc

Global commission partners is an evangelical missionary not for profit organization dedicated to evaluate and support native ministries who are planting the gospel of jesus christ among unreach people groups in poor countries.

Philanthropy
11
Full Gospel Church in India & Shepherd Children's Home

Providing educational and religious support to orphanage children

Human Services
12
Everything Laid Down Ministries

To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Force International and the most unlike its peers is Gateway Recovery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Children of Character Inc — $282,000 · ReligionChildren of Character IncEVERY ORPHANS HOPE — $247,210 · ReligionEVERY ORPHANS HOPEWORD MADE FLESH INC — $162,138 · ReligionWORD MADE FLESH INCHope Force International — $68,455 · ReligionHope Force InternationalGOOD LIFE MINISTRIES — $48,000 · ReligionGOOD LIFE MINISTRIES+6 more — $71,600 · Religion+6 moreIndividual grant recipient — $85,695 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMANI NEW LIFE HOME — $79,582 · OtherAMANI NEW LIFE HOMEBETHESDA HOSPITAL TRUST — $43,000 · OtherBETHESDA HOSPITAL TRUSTMISSIONS INDIA INTERNATIONAL INC — $40,804 · OtherMISSIONS INDIA INTERNATIONAL INCIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW LIFE HOME — $31,300 · OtherNEW LIFE HOMELIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY — $25,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRYBAPTIST INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INCORPORATED — $24,791 · OtherBAPTIST INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS IN…NO LONGER ABANDONED — $20,000 · OtherINTERSERVE — $15,000 · Other+5 more — $34,185 · Other+5 moreINDIA MEDICAL MISSION ASSISTANCE INC — $45,500 · InternationalINDIA MEDI…ONE GENERATION ALLIANCE INC — $40,530 · InternationalONE GENERA…EDUNATIONS INC — $33,668 · InternationalEDUNATIONS…CONVOY OF HOPE — $5,150 · InternationalHOME OF HOPE INDIA - US — $5,000 · InternationalCHILDREN OF THE NATIONS — $8,200 · Human ServicesTOGETHER WOMEN RISE — $6,250 · PhilanthropyGATEWAY RECOVERY INC — $5,000 · Health
Religion$879,403Other$434,357International$129,848Human Services$8,200Philanthropy$6,250Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren of Character Inc — $282,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetEVERY ORPHANS HOPE — $247,210 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetWORD MADE FLESH INC — $162,138 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetHope Force International — $68,455 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGOOD LIFE MINISTRIES — $48,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetINDIA MEDICAL MISSION ASSISTANCE INC — $45,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetONE GENERATION ALLIANCE INC — $40,530 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetEDUNATIONS INC — $33,668 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetINCA LINK INTERNATIONAL INC — $28,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHORIZON INITIATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL TRIBES OUTREACH INC — $10,200 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGLOBAL HORIZONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE NATIONS — $8,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJERICHO MINISTRIES INC — $8,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTOGETHER WOMEN RISE — $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOME OF HOPE INDIA - US — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Children of Character Inc
  • Who funds EVERY ORPHANS HOPE
  • Who funds WORD MADE FLESH INC
  • Who funds Hope Force International
  • Who funds GOOD LIFE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds INDIA MEDICAL MISSION ASSISTANCE INC
  • Who funds ONE GENERATION ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds EDUNATIONS INC
  • Who funds INCA LINK INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds HORIZON INITIATIVE
  • Who funds GLOBAL TRIBES OUTREACH INC
  • Who funds GLOBAL HORIZONS INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS
  • Who funds JERICHO MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds TOGETHER WOMEN RISE
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE
  • Who funds GATEWAY RECOVERY INC
  • Who funds HOME OF HOPE INDIA - US
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Universal Inc 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.

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no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hope Universal Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hope Universal Inc 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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