· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN DOOR HAITI | $70,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| LIGHTHUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SERVANTS HEART MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| DOUG HOLLIDAY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SHILOH BIBLE CAMP | $10,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| RAHAB MINISTRIES | $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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +90% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +134%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +90%- 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
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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