Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMMON HOPE
COMMON HOPE (Minnesota) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,777,770 to it, the largest being CG Charitable Fund ($1,875,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Common Hope does
Mission
Common Hope and its affiliate, fundacion familias de esperanza, promote hope and opportunity in guatemala, partnering with children and families who want to participate in a process of development to improve their lives through education, health care and housing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education: Common Hope helped provide pre-primary, primary, secondary, and university education for 3,192 students in 2025, supporting tuition and fees, books and supplies, shoes, and uniforms. We celebrated 194 young men and women who earned their high school diploma, most of them first generation graduates. Over 3,000 guatemalans have now graduated from high school through Common Hope! In alignment with our strategic plan, we implemented vocational training and career readiness programs for students affiliated with Common Hope. Other support included connectivity or access to computer labs and library resources for all students, individual and group homework/tutoring support for over 4,800 students, and diagnostic assessments for all 6-, 9-, 12, and 15-year-old students.
$1,697,137 spentof which $786,408 as grants$120,563 earned by the program51% of program spendingFamily and community development: in 2025, Common Hope partnered with 2,000 families to provide resources and tools to improve their lives in guatemala. Through a long-term relationship with a Common Hope social worker, families identified goals, obstacles and created their own family development plan. In person visits and tele-support services were available to all families. Food security, health & safety, and emotional support services were provided as a direct result of identified needs.
$872,451 spentof which $66,511 as grants$63,005 earned by the program26% of program spendingHealth care: Common Hope's medical staff conducted a total of 20,073 consultations with patients at our clinic and through tele-health services in 2025. Health care services included examinations, lab tests, x-rays, medications, surgeries, mental health services and dental care. Clinic staff provided regular treatment and education for patients with chronic health issues, including diabetes and hypertension, ensuring ongoing lab monitoring. We partner with other organizations to provide health and dental care at our san rafael el arado, san miguel milpas altas, and new hope sites.
$508,933 spentof which $92,395 as grants$45,636 earned by the program15% of program spendingHousing: in 2025 Common Hope provided 27 houses that are clean, dry, and safe to families in our programs, 8 of which were block homes built in partnership with a local guatemalan non-profit. 34 desks and 13 bunk beds were built. These housing initiatives not only provide families with a safe and secure environment but also empower them to focus on their children's education.
$279,692 spentof which $53,911 as grants$21,796 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,358,213.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.1M to $9.0M (+11%).
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.
88% of COMMON HOPE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jocelyn Skolnik
Executive director
Board chair
Davor Grgic
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $660k → $1.1M.
24 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 COMMON HOPE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
COMMON HOPE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
77% 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 COMMON HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 43% · 2019 17% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 22% · 2023 15% — 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 COMMON HOPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
54% of COMMON 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 $4.0M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
COMMON HOPE receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $8.8M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMON 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON 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 COMMON HOPE?
- COMMON HOPE (Minnesota) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,777,770 to it, the largest being CG Charitable Fund ($1,875,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMON HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $8,777,770 in grants to COMMON HOPE, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON HOPE?
- CG Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $1,875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 79 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