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Radical Hope Inc

Radical hope is committed to improving the lives and futures of young adults by strengthening connections and building resilience.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.3MRecreation & Sports$50kFood & Nutrition$20kEducation$9k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $68,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $163,095 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $95,095 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR TEAMWORK CO AARON TAYLOR FOUNDER$50,000
WESLEYAN ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT$10,000
PACE UNIVERSITY$8,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMHERST COLLEGE ATHLETICS: $9k → 12%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $12k → 16%CORE TRIBUTE FOUNDATION: $6k → 22%BRING CHANGE TO MIND: $110k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR TEAMWORK CO AARON TAYLOR FOUNDER: $50k → 11%A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE: $15k → 16%PACE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 17%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%WESLEYAN ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT: $20k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE: $5k → 12%PEACELOVE FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $19k → 23%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $9k → 12%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $12k → 9%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $12k → 16%BRING CHANGE TO MIND: $75k → 10%PACE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 17%WESLEYAN ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT: $10k → 7%PEACELOVE FOUNDATION: $195k → 14%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $10k → 16%BRING CHANGE TO MIND: $75k → 10%PACE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 17%WESLEYAN ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT: $10k → 7%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $10k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $120k → 17%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%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

VT
WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
NC
GA
TX
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 70% of Radical Hope Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 8%.

Radical Hope Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$1.2M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+12%

Still filing today

86%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther
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

  • BC
    BRING CHANGE 2 MIND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $260k · revenue +88%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +30%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • AB
    A Better Life Foundation USA Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -100%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $19k · revenue +2%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue -2%
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
7
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
8
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is A Better Life Foundation Usa Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEACELOVE FOUNDATION: $695,000 · HealthPEACELOVE FOUNDATIONBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $260,000 · HealthBRING CHANGE 2 MINDNew York University: $150,000 · EducationNew York UniversityWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYPACE UNIVERSITY: $26,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITYEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC: $22,000 · EducationEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INCTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $18,500 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER U…Trustees of Hamilton College: $14,750 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $12,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $11,550 · Education+5 more: $37,523 · Education+5 moreFOUNDATION FOR TEAMWORK CO AARON TAYLOR FOUNDER: $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATIO…PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $38,500 · OtherPRAIRIE V…A Better Life Foundation USA Inc: $20,000 · OtherA Better …CORE TRIBUTE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Other
Health$955,000Education$342,323Other$114,500

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 budgetPEACELOVE FOUNDATION: $695,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $260,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNew York University: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Better Life Foundation USA Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $18,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $14,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $11,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $8,523 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Radical Hope Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Radical Hope Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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