· Private foundation
Tears of 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ELI AND SUSANNA GLICK | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| KURTZ HOMESTEAD | $5,000 |
| CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| WHISPERING HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CONESTOGA RETREAT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MARIE TROYER FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PMPAROCHIAL MEDICAL CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $171k · revenue +23%
- CAChristian Aid Ministries5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +8%
Mercy Ships International4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- OWOLD WORLD ORDER AMISH CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $36k
- EMELI MILLER BABY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $9k
- SSSTEVEN STOLTZFUS CHURCH ALMSone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
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.
To provide Christian counseling.
Provide a home for mentally recovering patients in a conservative rest home enviroment with biblical spritiual staff. to be mentored to returned home, leading productive lives in the family, church, and community.
Biblical counseling
Outpatient mental health in a Christian atmosphere.
Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.
A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.
An esteemed short-stay & long-term skilled nursing facility with rehabilitation, dementia & hospice services that serves persons of all incomes & is committed to excellence & person-centered care.
Diagnosis and treatment of, and providing primary and subspecialty care for special children and adults with genetic diseases.
To provide housing and a day program for men and women with special needs. these facilities offer activities in a christian setting.
Shepherd's heart is a biblically centered, clinically informed counseling ministry that offers comfort, hope, and healing to those struggling with spiritual, relational, emotional, or mental health issues.
Rehabilitative Medical Services
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 165 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PAROCHIAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds RED ROCK REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLINIC FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THERAPY BARN ↗
- Who funds HANDS 2 CARE ↗
- Who funds EASTBROOK WELL SPRING CARE ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Anabaptist Foundation · Eastwood Corner Non-Grantor Irrv Tr · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tears of Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tears of Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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