· Private foundation
The Hope Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN DOOR HAITI | $70,000 |
| LIGHTHUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| DOUG HOLLIDAY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SERVANTS HEART MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SHILOH BIBLE CAMP | $10,000 |
| RAHAB MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +134%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +70%- LPLIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC3× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- HAHOPE AND SERENITY RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $155k · revenue -84% · 66% of their budget
- SOSTAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -9%
- HAHOPE AND SERENITY RECOVERY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Journey To Destiny Ministries (JTDM) is a global, faith-based nonprofit organization committed to transforming and restoring dignity, hope, and opportunity to vulnerable individualsespecially children, women, and families affected by…
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
Purpose Driven Connection is dedicated to helping create healthy lives and healthy churches for the global glory of God.
We seek to touch lives, change hearts, and love people to Christ by helping to provide for their spiritual and physical needs.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND SERENITY RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DOUG HOLLIDAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS HEART MINISTRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WALTER HOVING HOME INC DBA HOVING HOME ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHILOH BIBLE CAMP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Hope Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Servants Heart Ministry Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.