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Hopelab Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$4.6MYouth Development$1.3MEducation$1.2MPhilanthropy$740kCivil Rights$720kScience & Tech$634kInternational$530kPublic Benefit$375kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$63,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mindright Health Inc$1,264,667
Griptape$250,000
National Center for Civic Innovation$175,000
Griptape$169,000
Center for Intimacy Justice$125,000
March On Foundation - Encode Justice$125,000
Young Peoples Alliance Education Fund$125,000
Cyber Collective Incorporated$125,000
Global Impact - Design It For Us$125,000
Seattle Foundation$110,000
Griptape$76,000
New Venture Fund$75,000
Rethink Citizens$75,000
Generation Patient$75,000
The Film Collaborative$75,000
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Alameda Family Services: $40k → 10%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of Hopelab Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Hopelab Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 24 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
55

Total granted

$5.2M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+43%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Cornell University
    2× · 2021–2022 · $256k · revenue +23%
  • CF
    Center for Intimacy Justice
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +57% · 46% of their budget
  • CT
    CRISIS TEXT LINE INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $210k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • PG
    PANORAMA GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $330k · revenue +47%
  • MO
    March on Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $175k
  • CL
    CONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +305%
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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
5
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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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
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
11
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
12
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Training and Research Associates; the most unlike its peers is Livebetter Corp. 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

57 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. 57 of the 111 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
35/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mindright Health Inc: $2,529,667 · OtherMindright Health IncNEW VENTURE FUND: $275,000 · Other+67 more: $3,310,107 · Other+67 moreGRIPTAPE ORG INC: $495,000 · EducationGRIPTAPE ORG INCCornell University: $255,809 · EducationCornell Universit…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $189,125 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…RETHINK CITIZENS: $125,000 · EducationRETHINK CITIZENSCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC: $100,000 · EducationCIVICS UNPLUGGED …Teachers College Columbia University: $100,000 · EducationTeachers College …INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-US: $75,000 · EducationTRUBEL&CO: $63,000 · Education+8 more: $288,234 · Education+8 moreLIVEBETTER CORP: $290,000 · HealthLIVEBETTE…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $210,000 · HealthCRISIS TE…Generation Patient Inc: $150,000 · HealthGeneratio…HALFTHESTORY: $75,000 · HealthHALFTHEST…NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 · HealthNURSE-FAM…BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC: $50,000 · HealthBLACK GIR…HLTH IMPACT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $40,000 · HealthCenter for Intimacy Justice: $225,000 · Civil RightsYOUNG PEOPLES ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND: $175,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINK INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $330,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $100,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $35,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $175,000 · Community ImprovementROCK HEALTH FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPublic Works Alliance: $87,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $15,000 · Community ImprovementPANORAMA GLOBAL: $330,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC: $100,000 · InternationalFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $63,000 · International
Other$6,114,774Education$1,691,168Health$895,000Civil Rights$610,000Philanthropy$540,000Community Improvement$502,000International$493,000

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 budgetGRIPTAPE ORG INC: $495,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $330,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIVEBETTER CORP: $290,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $255,809 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Intimacy Justice: $225,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $210,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $189,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLES ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND: $175,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $175,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTERLINK INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGeneration Patient Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetROCK HEALTH FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCYBER COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $125,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetRETHINK CITIZENS: $125,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetTHE CHARACTER LAB INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCONNECTED LEARNING ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDetroit Heals Detroit Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCIVICS UNPLUGGED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPublic Works Alliance: $87,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $80,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-US: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHALFTHESTORY: $75,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTHE FEELS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetALL MENTAL HEALTH INC: $72,600 over 2y, 16% of budgetTRUBEL&CO: $63,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $63,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARRAY EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpelman College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $40,867 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda Family Services Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe George Washington University: $39,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $35,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $30,368 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHLTH IMPACT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Venture FundThe William & Flora H…The David and Lucile …New Schools FundGates FoundationTides FoundationEchoing Green IncThe Arthur M Blank Fa…Foundation to Promote…Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincRockefeller Philanthr…
New Venture FundDC25.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · New Schools Fund · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · Echoing Green Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Centerlink Inc: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Hopelab Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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