· Private foundation
The Hope Initiative for a Better Life Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LOUVRE | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE VERBIER FESTIVAL | $22,300 |
| THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VAUX-LE-VICOMTE | $13,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| GASTON LENOTRE SCHOLARSHIP INC | $4,000 |
| TEXAN FRENCH ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS | $1,600 |
| WOMEN IN PHILANTHROPY OF SARASOTA - SELBY GARDENS | $1,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY | $912 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $500 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $200 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($411k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($56k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($56k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES4× · 2021–2024 · $93k · revenue +246% · 34% of their budget
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +48%
- FFFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue ×688
- VVIRTUOSIone grant, 2017 · $13k
- VHVENITIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…
The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The foundation's mission is to create a series of harmonious, site specific art installations around the world, each of which will provide lasting testimony to the natural beauty of their surroundings. these permanent works will help…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
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How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 36 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VENICE ITALY INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds TEXAN-FRENCH ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Versailles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Houston Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hope Initiative for a Better Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hope Initiative for a Better Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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