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The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust

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.

$324k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$112,935
Organizations funded a year
6 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$4.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY2024still arriving12$211k8%
FY20236$68k50%
FY202211$237k55%
FY202112$113k50%
FY202018$215k72%
FY201912$325k58%
FY20187$89k43%
FY20177$69kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$887kHuman Services$262kPhilanthropy$191kReligion$120kHealth$95kFood & Nutrition$27kCrime & Legal$18kEnvironment$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sewa International Inc$188,50851%
South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc$140,00030%
Lowell Transitional Living Center Inc$118,14233%
Chinmaya Mission of Boston$66,0007n/a
Victory Programs Inc$33,60030%
Premiere Charities Inc$18,282110%
Roca Inc$16,00030%
Eden Incorporated$12,00015%
The Baker Foundation$7,50013%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$7,00030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($662k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSewa International Inc: $188,508 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSouth Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLowell Transitional Living Center Inc: $118,142 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetVictory Programs Inc: $33,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPremiere Charities Inc: $18,282 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetRoca Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEden Incorporated: $12,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Baker Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $6,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGurjar Gujarati Association of New England Inc: $5,750 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetPardada Pardadi Educational Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAuxiliary to Bellevue Hospital Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLearnquest Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetMerrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Greater Boston Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAkshaya Patra Foundation (Usa): $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCandorful Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFood Link Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Circle for Caring USA Inc (Icc): $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Clara Valley Science and Engineering Fair Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWe the Protesters Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Economic Democracy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lowell General Hospital: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Audacity: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 27.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA21.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Analog Devices Foundation · The Chirag Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Global Impact

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 - USA 1999 Trust

How much does The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust give?
The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust reported 13 grants totaling $323,606 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (40%), Human Services (12%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sewa International Inc ($189k), South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc ($140k), Lowell Transitional Living Center Inc ($118k).
Does The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Essex County Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust based?
The Hope Foundation - USA 1999 Trust is based in MA.

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 49 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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