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Minnesota · Public charity

Painting Hope

Painting Hope is a live art performance and presentation by Eric Samuel Timm that brings hope, inspiration, and empowerment to audiences internationally.

$221k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
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100% of Painting Hope’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Joy To The World Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$220,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$220,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$322k
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$522kReligion$865Education$754Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Summit Church$7541n/a
Minnesota Dist Council$6001n/a
People Loving Nashville$54210%
The General Council of the Assemblies of God$2651n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($100), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Painting Hope?

Find your warmest path to Painting Hope 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.

About Painting Hope

How much does Painting Hope give?
Painting Hope reported 1 grants totaling $221,313 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Painting Hope fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (100%), Religion (0%), Education (0%).
Who are Painting Hope's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Summit Church ($754), Minnesota Dist Council ($600), People Loving Nashville ($542).
Which funders back the same organizations as Painting Hope?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Painting Hope based?
Painting Hope is based in MN.

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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $30k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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