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Offering 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
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 2025.

Human Services$86kInternational$77kFood & Nutrition$37kEducation$21kYouth Development$20kPhilanthropy$18kReligion$15kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$482k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$15,000
HAPPY BOTTOMS$10,000
HOPE GOSPEL MISSION$5,000
FEED MY PEOPLE$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FEED MY PEOPLE: $5k → 9%FEED MY PEOPLE: $5k → 9%FEED MY PEOPLE: $5k → 9%FEED MY PEOPLE: $5k → 9%FEED MY PEOPLE: $5k → 9%FEED MY PEOPLE: $5k → 9%FEED MY PEOPLE: $3k → 9%FEED MY PEOPLE: $3k → 9%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $11k → 15%FEED MY PEOPLE: $2k → 9%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $9k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $8k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 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.
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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 25% of Offering Hope Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 6%.

Offering Hope Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 10 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$270k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+49%

Still filing today

60%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HAPPYBOTTOMS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +267%
  • TG
    THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +315%
  • FM
    FEED MY PEOPLE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • KC
    Kansas City Dream Center Co
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -16%
  • TE
    TRINITY EQUESTRIAN CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
2
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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5
BABY2BABY

Baby2baby provides children in need across the country with diapers, formula, clothing and all the basic necessities that every child deserves.

Unclassified
6
Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.

Housing & Shelter
7
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
8
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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9
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
10
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
11
Bless the Children Ministries Inc

To be the love of christ to uganda's orphaned and vulnerable children, equipping them to become authentic godly leaders that transform generations

International
12
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kansas City Dream Center Co. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAPPYBOTTOMS: $82,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMSFEED MY PEOPLE: $37,000 · Human ServicesFEED MY PEOPLEUNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION: $29,600 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH O…CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION: $15,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE RESURRECTIO…RESURRECTION CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherRESURRECTION CATHOLIC SCH…CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED (CCVI): $5,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE …TRINITY EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $2,500 · OtherCASA: $2,400 · Other+1 more: $1,200 · OtherTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJ…HOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC: $17,500 · PhilanthropyHOPE GOSPEL MISSION IN…OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $20,500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentKansas City Dream Center Co: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$119,000Other$63,200Philanthropy$57,500Education$20,500Youth Development$20,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Recreation & Sports$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $82,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE: $37,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Dream Center Co: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOC: $1,000 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 HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
  • Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Kansas City Dream Center Co ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOC ↗

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 Offering Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Offering 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 15 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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