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House for Hope Foundation

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.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$71k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations House for Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$5k100%
FY20211$10k0%
FY20203$10k67%
FY20191$500100%
FY201718$103kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$42kHealth$35kReligion$23kHuman Services$14kEducation$6kRecreation & Sports$6kPhilanthropy$3kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee$6,00010%
Frank Town Open Hearts Ministry Inc$6,00012%
High Hopes Inc$6,00010%
Bridges of Williamson County$6,00011%
Saddle Up$6,00011%
Tennessee Baptist Childrens Homes Inc$6,0001n/a
My Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc$6,0001n/a
Grace Works Inc$6,0001n/a
Hospital Hospitality House Corporation$3,00020%
Hands on Nashville Inc$1,00010%
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All grantees of House for Hope Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee$6,00010%
Frank Town Open Hearts Ministry Inc$6,00012%
High Hopes Inc$6,00010%
Bridges of Williamson County$6,00011%
Saddle Up$6,00011%
Tennessee Baptist Childrens Homes Inc$6,0001n/a
My Friend's House Family and Children Services Inc$6,0001n/a
Grace Works Inc$6,0001n/a
Hospital Hospitality House Corporation$3,00020%
Hands on Nashville Inc$1,00010%
Kids Chance of Florida$1,00011%
Nashville Rescue Mission$50010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget House for Hope Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFrank Town Open Hearts Ministry Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHigh Hopes Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBridges of Williamson County: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSaddle Up: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHospital Hospitality House Corporation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHands on Nashville Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Chance of Florida: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNashville Rescue Mission: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Yarbrough Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Franklin Noon Rotary Charitable Foundation Inc · McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn · Speer Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Ebs Foundation

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.

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About House for Hope Foundation

How much does House for Hope Foundation give?
House for Hope Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $4,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does House for Hope Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (32%), Health (27%), Religion (17%).
Who are House for Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee ($6k), Frank Town Open Hearts Ministry Inc ($6k), High Hopes Inc ($6k).
Does House for Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does House for Hope Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as House for Hope Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Nashville Predators Foundation.
Where is House for Hope Foundation based?
House for Hope Foundation is based in TN.

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 27 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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