Colorado · Nonprofit
Children's HopeChest
Children's HopeChest (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,555,009 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,514,783). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Children's HopeChest does
Mission
Inspired by Christ's love, Children's HopeChest releases the potential existing within vulnerable communities, starting with the children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's HopeChest develops highly relational, community-to-community partnerships between Christian communities in North America and communities of orphaned and vulnerable children in 5 countries. We believe the most transformational, holistic, sustainable, and long-term change occurs when one community partners with another. Children's HopeChest engages churches, businesses, and other Christian communities in long-term partnerships that help orphans, vulnerable children and their communities survive, thrive and succeed within their home cultures by:* Empowering local leaders to share the Gospel, reduce poverty, and create self-sufficiency for every child, their homestead, and the greater community.* Equipping partnering communities to directly engage in healthy, international development practices.* Addressing the complex causes of poverty, including material, spiritual, emotional, social, economic, and educational needs.* Tending to the child's holistic needs for survival, community, education, and employment.* Transforming the lives of children through a focus on sustainability, independence, and long-term self-sufficiency,* Transforming the lives of the partnering community…
$3,869,961 spentof which $1,727,535 as grants74% of program spendingDevelopment projects involve the setup of such infrastructure as water systems, community centers (CarePoints), latrines, showers, schools, and libraries. They also fund sustainability - promoting programs that include artisanship, agriculture, animal husbandry, micro-finance, small business establishment, and vocational and entrepreneurial business leadership. These projects help HopeChest reach the broadest audience surrounding orphaned and vulnerable children within highly impoverished and vulnerable communities.
$832,777 spentof which $681,444 as grants16% of program spendingHopeChest Vision Trips and Partner Visits facilitate up-close and hands-on service and relationship building for partners desiring the personal touch and experience of connecting to their partnered CarePoint or Project. These relationship-building visits are key to building trust and involvement in the long-term relationship with these communities.
$509,397 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,212,135.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $2.5M (+41%).
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% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Children's HopeChest’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Ken Sparks
President and CEO
Board chair
Brynn Albretsen
Board Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $287k → $325k.
15 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Children's HopeChest’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
Children's HopeChest leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 Children's HopeChest.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 80% · 2019 83% · 2020 63% · 2021 27% · 2022 59% · 2023 41% — 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
61% of Children's HopeChest's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
83% of Children's HopeChest'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 $597k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Children's HopeChest runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Children's HopeChest
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 23 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's HopeChest: 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 Children's HopeChest?
- Children's HopeChest (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,555,009 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,514,783). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Children's HopeChest have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,555,009 in grants to Children's HopeChest, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children's HopeChest?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,514,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children's HopeChest find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing