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The Blessed Hope Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$121kHealth$67kHuman Services$32kCivil Rights$14kEmployment$1kYouth Development$1kAnimals$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$1,371
Median grant
4
States reached
$317k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER$23,500
INDIVIDUAL IN NEED CONFIDENTIAL$22,298
SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA$7,500
ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURC$6,000
LIVE ACTION$4,000
INDIVIDUAL IN NEED CONFIDENTIAL$1,371
SPAY-NEUTOR ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC$1,000
LIFE CHOICES OF MONROE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CENTRO BUEN PASTOR INC$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA$1,000
INDIVIDUAL IN NEED CONFIDENTIAL$575
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 (FY22–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, 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%WOUNDED WARIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%MADDIES FOOTPRINTS: $1k → 17%OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER: $24k → 28%THE DES ORMEAUX FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER: $21k → 28%OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER: $21k → 28%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$152k · 3 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
14

Total granted

$152k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-71%
+45%

Still filing today

33%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • SC
    ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $85k
  • OP
    OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue -71%
  • LC
    LIFE CHOICES OF MONROE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k

Funded once

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • TC
    THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF MERCY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
Heartbeat Cpc of Nacogdoches

Foster and engender respect for human life at all of its stages and regardless of its state of dependence or development or lack thereof, and aid pregnant women who are distressed because of their pregnancies.

Civil Rights
2
Louisiana Perinatal Justice Allianc

The purpose and mission of the louisiana perinatal justice alliance is to improve the reproductive care and health outcomes for all louisiana families, to promote evidence-based maternal and infant care, to advocate for parenting families,…

Health
3
Dog People of Livingston

The Fix Clinics mission is to promote the welfare of pets and their guardians by providing accessible, affordable, and timely spay and neuter services in Livingston Parish. In addition, we are committed to supporting partner organizations…

Animals
4
Liv Pregnancy and Women's Wellness

Pregnancy Counseling, Support & Education

Health
5
Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Pregnancy counseling

Human Services
6
Power to Decide

Power to decide envisions a world where everyone - no matter who they are or where they live - has control over their bodies and can decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child. its mission is to advance…

Human Services
7
Wiregrass Emergency Pregnancy Service

To uphold that every pregnant woman has the right to needed help to bring her child to term and to foster respect for human life from conception to natural death - all stages of development.

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8
Womens Resource Medical Centers

Women's resource medical centers of southern nevada (wrmcsn) is a community-based, faith-driven not for profit 501 (c) 3 organization that exists to support pregnant women with medical care and resources to ensure healthy and thriving…

Health
9
Options for Women of Pike County

The mission of options for women is to confidentially aid those facing abortion decisions in northeastern missouri and surrounding area through the complimentary clinical, material, educational, emotional, and spiritual support required to…

Human Services
10
Life Choice Pregnancy Center of Western North Carolina

Choosing Life over Abortion

Human Services
11
Good News for Life Inc

Crisis pregnancy counseling

Human Services
12
Louisiana Right to Life Federation

Louisiana Right to Life Federation Works through education and Legislation to restore the right to life in Louisiana by opposing abortion, euthanasia, and other life destroying actions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Line 4 Line. 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

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 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH: $85,000 · OtherST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCHINDIVIDUAL IN NEED CONFIDENTIAL: $24,244 · OtherINDIVIDUAL IN NEED CONFIDENTIALDIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE: $18,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF LAFAYETTETHE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF MERCY: $10,000 · OtherTHE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF MERCYSUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA: $7,500 · OtherST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURC: $6,000 · Other+11 more: $17,213 · Other+11 moreOPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $65,300 · Human ServicesOPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER INC+3 more: $5,000 · Human Services+3 moreLIVE ACTION: $4,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthLINE 4 LINE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSpay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc: $1,000 · Animals
Other$167,957Human Services$70,300Civil Rights$4,000Health$2,000Arts & Culture$1,000Animals$1,000

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 budgetOPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $65,300 over 3y, 14% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesormeaux Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINE 4 LINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc: $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 OPELOUSAS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Desormeaux Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LINE 4 LINE ↗
  • Who funds MADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS ↗
  • Who funds Spay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc ↗

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.

Community Foundation of AcadianaLA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Mills Family Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Blessed Hope Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blessed Hope Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 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 · 0–5%
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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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