Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Building New Hope
Building New Hope (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,540 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($96,324). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $160k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $211k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Building New Hope does
Mission
To partner with and support underserved communities in Central America through programs in economic development education and health
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Education youth programs Building New Hope provides scholarships to students from underserved neighborhoods in granada nicaragua to attend quality private high schools including nuestra seora de guadalupe and colegio diocesano inmaculada concepcion. Recipients must maintain good grades and give back through tutoring or community service. Building New Hope also supports children of el porvenir a worker-owned coffee cooperative through an educational fund providing access to high school and university education for youth selected by the cooperative. Additionally bnh supports the guatemala school an elementary school in a remote rural area; the aman school for the handicapped serving children with disabilities in granada nicaragua; and puedo leer a lending library in granada primarily serving children.
$35,193 spent38% of program spendingEconomic development fair trade coffee project in2002 Building New Hope partnered with el porvenir a worker-owned cooperative of48 families in nicaragua to market their organic shade-grown coffee at fair and directtrade prices above the world fair trade minimum.this partnership prevented foreclosure and loss of land for cooperative families. Revenue supports the cooperatives infrastructure water systems and educational fund. The coffee is certified organic shade-grown and bird-friendly by the smithsonian migratory bird center roasted fresh to order in pittsburgh and sold directly across the united states. Bnh pays farmers above fair trade minimum price ensuring sustainable income for cooperative families. Through its fair trade awareness program bnh also educates consumers and organizations across the u.s. About fair trade sustainable agriculture and bird-friendly coffee practices demonstrating how purchasing decisions directly impact farming communities in central america
$50,890 spent55% of program spendingHealth: the casa lupita veterinary clinic addresses the public health problem of stray and diseased animals in granada nicaragua. It provides the kinds of services that a humane society does in the united states.
$6,300 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,383.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $89k to $153k (+72%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of Building New Hope’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Maria Soledad Cabezas
Executive director
Board chair
Felipe Godard
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $8k → $4k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Building New Hope’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Building New Hope leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Building New Hope.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 33% · 2021 52% · 2022 70% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
72% of Building New Hope's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Building New Hope receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $211k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Building New Hope
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Building New Hope: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Building New Hope?
- Building New Hope (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,540 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($96,324). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Building New Hope have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $210,540 in grants to Building New Hope, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Building New Hope?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $96,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Building New Hope find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing