Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Call of Hope
Call of Hope (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,895 to it, the largest being Gordon Christian Trust ($80,695). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $775k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $237k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Call of Hope does
Mission
Call of Hope exists to make the Gospel of Jesus Christ accessible to Muslims and to support persecuted Christians through creative media, relational evangelism, discipleship, humanitarian aid, and church-planting initiatives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Humanitarian Aid - Call of Hope provides food, medical aid, education, shelter and other life essentials as we share the love of Christ to those who need it most. Our goal in every project is to provide both immediate relief and a sustainable solution to the problems that individuals and families are facing.
$132,000 spentof which $132,000 as grants37% of program spendingRelational Evangelism - Call of Hope's frontline workers are uniquely positioned to build relationships with their friends and neighbors. Through acts of service, involvement in the community, and the development of friendships, relational evangelism has become a clear pathway to experience the love of Christ and bear much fruit for the gospel.
$108,957 spentof which $89,676 as grants30% of program spendingBibles & Literature and Discipleship - Call of Hope provides bibles and other Christian literature in the native languages of the countries in which we work. We also provide training in the word of God and guidance in living in the culture as a new believer in Christ.
$107,500 spentof which $107,500 as grants30% of program spendingLeadership Development - Call of Hope supports and serves Christian believers and fellowships in the muslim world, large and small, so that new believers are strengthened in the faith, and new leaders are trained and developed to lead congregations. Leadership seminars and training are conducted to provide solid biblical training, leadership skills, and practical theology.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $358,457.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $733k to $1.3M (+81%).
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.
95% of Call of Hope’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Ron Chiricosta
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $81k → $25k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Call of 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
Call of Hope leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Call of Hope.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 78% · 2023 100% — 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
Call of Hope draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Call of Hope runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Call of 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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Call of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Call of Hope?
- Call of Hope (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,895 to it, the largest being Gordon Christian Trust ($80,695). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Call of Hope have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $236,895 in grants to Call of Hope, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Call of Hope?
- Gordon Christian Trust is the largest funder on record, with $80,695 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Call of 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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