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Carole's House of Hope

Carole's House of Hope (Nebraska) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,545,046 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($4,538,521). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$928k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$6.5M
Net assets
$1.7M
12/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Carole's House of Hope does

Mission

Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency and independence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Housing and training of life skills for persons who have aged out of foster care.

    $1,073,484 spent$81,547 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,073,484.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($986k) Expenses 100 ($998k) Net assets 100 ($334k)2018 Revenue 110 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.1M) Net assets 110 ($365k)2019 Revenue 89 ($875k) Expenses 82 ($819k) Net assets 126 ($422k)2020 Revenue 99 ($976k) Expenses 85 ($850k) Net assets 164 ($547k)2021 Revenue 263 ($2.6M) Expenses 101 ($1.0M) Net assets 637 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 98 ($965k) Expenses 99 ($988k) Net assets 630 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 107 ($1.1M) Expenses 107 ($1.1M) Net assets 626 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 117 ($1.2M) Expenses 124 ($1.2M) Net assets 600 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 94 ($928k) Expenses 124 ($1.2M) Net assets 508 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (124)Net assets (508)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $549k to $2.1M (+287%).

$347k
$373k
$429k
$549k
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 14% · 2021 4% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of Carole's House of Hope’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
$32k
’18
$56k
’19
$126k
’20
$1.6M
’21
−$24k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$89k
’24
−$305k
’25
2.2
months of
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

Carole Kinlow

Chief Executive Officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed7109886755
Joined·+7+0+1+1+2+1+2+0
No longer listed·41214040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $781k → $642k.

2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Carole's House 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

Carole's House of Hope leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69%
largest funder
79%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 87% · 2019 89% · 2020 63% · 2021 67% · 2022 51% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

57% of Carole's House of Hope's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of Carole's House of Hope's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

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IL
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NE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Carole's House of Hope receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $6.5M to it.

Operating margin−33% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Carole's House of Hope

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 7%Fundraising 6%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Carole's House of Hope?
Carole's House of Hope (Nebraska) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,545,046 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($4,538,521). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Carole's House of Hope have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $6,545,046 in grants to Carole's House of Hope, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Carole's House of Hope?
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,538,521 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Carole's House of Hope find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 18 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