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The Hope Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$165k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
9
Organizations funded FY2020
67%
First-time grantees FY2020
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53% of The Hope Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Servants Heart Ministry Corporation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Hope Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $165k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
8
’18
2
’19
5
’20
3
’21
3
’22
2
’23
3
’24
2
’25

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

Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Total assets, FY2020
$1.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 67% of the organizations The Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20209$165k67%
FY20192$80k0%
FY201812$655k0%
FY201712$650kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$710kHealth$658kHuman Services$325kReligion$221kCrime & Legal$40kFood & Nutrition$30kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OH
NJ
VA
TN
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Hope Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Door Haiti Inc$535,000929%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$200,00030%
Hope and Serenity Recovery Community Center Inc$155,000166%
Samaritan's Purse$150,00020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$125,00020%
Doug Holliday Ministries Inc$85,00099%
Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center Inc$60,00032%
Walter Hoving Home Inc Dba Hoving Home$50,00021%
Center for Food Action in New Jersey$30,00020%
Star of Hope Ministries Inc$20,00011%
Shiloh Bible Camp Inc$10,00012%
Cornerstone Christian Church$2,0001n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($682k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Hope Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpen Door Haiti Inc: $535,000 over 9y, 29% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHope and Serenity Recovery Community Center Inc: $155,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDoug Holliday Ministries Inc: $85,000 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetLighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWalter Hoving Home Inc Dba Hoving Home: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCenter for Food Action in New Jersey: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStar of Hope Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetShiloh Bible Camp Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Chrinian Family FoundationNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chrinian Family Foundation · Robert a Skead & Mildred L Skead Ch · Columbia Bank Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About The Hope Foundation

How much does The Hope Foundation give?
The Hope Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Hope Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (32%), Health (30%), Human Services (15%).
Who are The Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Open Door Haiti Inc ($535k), Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ($200k), Hope and Serenity Recovery Community Center Inc ($155k).
Does The Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hope Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hope Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chrinian Family Foundation, Robert a Skead & Mildred L Skead Ch, Columbia Bank Foundation.
Where is The Hope Foundation based?
The Hope Foundation is based in NJ.

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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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