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J&N 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.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it funds
0167% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$453kHealth$50kInternational$29kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$9kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$6kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$1,545
Median grant
12
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD NEWS CENTER$19,040
CONTEND GLOBAL-YOUNG PEOPLE SUPPORT$15,000
UNITED IN CHRIST - MATTEO$12,000
CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE$12,000
MATTERA MINISTRIES$12,000
HARVESTNET MINISTRIES$7,500
FAITH2ACTION MINISTRIES$5,004
GODS SOLIDERS MINISTRIES$5,004
CARITAS IN VERITATE$5,000
UNITED IN CHRIST - BRUNO$4,253
REAL LOVE MINISTRIES$2,500
MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,953
CLEVELAND FOODBANK$1,545
Individual grant recipient$1,032
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%God's Soldier Ministries: $12k → 13%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
MI
MA
IN
OH
CA
UT
CO
MD
TN
NC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$464k · 18 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
84

Total granted

$464k
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+40%

Still filing today

11%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’24’25
ReligionHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GS
    GODS SOLIDERS MINISTRIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $193k
  • FI
    FAITH IN ACTION MINISTRIES OF GOD INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $95k
  • F2
    FAITH 2 ACTION MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $47k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • AP
    Alternaterm Pregnancy Distress Center
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
2
Encounter Church

Church

Religion
3
Global Dmm
Religion
4
Faith Speaks World Outreach

World outreach

Religion
5
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
6
Unify Ministries
Religion
7
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
8
Rod Hoskins Ministries

Missionary work

Religion
9
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
10
Korean World Mission Council
Religion
11
Transform Ministries
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12
New Heart World Ministries
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue; the most unlike its peers is Ohio Partners for Transformation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 125 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GODS SOLIDERS MINISTRIES: $192,708 · OtherGODS SOLIDERS MINISTRIESFAITH IN ACTION MINISTRIES OF GOD INC: $95,000 · OtherFAITH IN ACTION MINISTRIES OF GOD INCFAITH 2 ACTION MINISTRIES INC: $47,004 · OtherFAITH 2 ACTION MINISTRIES INCIndividual grant recipient: $30,397 · OtherAlternaterm Pregnancy Distress Center: $25,000 · Other+109 more: $294,966 · Other+109 moreUNITED IN CHRIST: $33,739 · ReligionLOU ENGLE MINISTRIES: $5,000 · ReligionOne Voice Student Missions: $5,000 · ReligionREAL LOVE MINISTRIES: $2,500 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionGOOD NEWS CENTER INC: $29,141 · International+1 more: $35 · InternationalCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $12,000 · Civil RightsGods Soldier Ministries: $12,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $3,502 · Food & NutritionRise in Love: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$685,075Religion$47,239International$29,176Civil Rights$12,000Human Services$12,000Food & Nutrition$3,502Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED IN CHRIST: $33,739 over 3y, 11% of budgetGOOD NEWS CENTER INC: $29,141 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGods Soldier Ministries: $12,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetLOU ENGLE MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $3,502 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRise in Love: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSTEEL CITY IMPACT INC: $482 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInspiring Minds: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $35 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 UNITED IN CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEWS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE ↗
  • Who funds Gods Soldier Ministries ↗
  • Who funds LOU ENGLE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds One Voice Student Missions ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds REAL LOVE MINISTRIES ↗

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.

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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 J&N Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J&N Hope Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to J&N Hope Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to J&N Hope Foundation 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 125 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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