Utah · Nonprofit
Cottages of Hope Inc
Cottages of Hope Inc (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,514 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ($124,620). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $533k
What Cottages of Hope Inc does
Mission
Cottages of Hope exists to inspire individuals and households to realize their potential by providing meaningful programs and services that empower them to achieve greater levels of financial stability. Activities include free tax preparation, financial literacy presentations, free internet access, IDA Savings Plans, and job coaching.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Workforce Development: (The Prosperity Center): Our resource center offers freecomputer and internet access, technical assistance, phone(fax), and information about other valuable community resources. The Center utilizes volunteers and work based learning participants from the Federal Work Study Program, Family Employment Program(FEP, Job Corps, and Easter Seals). A majority of our efforts in the center are still focused primarily on helping individuals find stable employment.Free Tax Preparation: Cottages of Hope continues to offer the Volunteer Income TaxAssistance (VITA) program where we prepared returns in 2015. Our purpose or goal inoffering this services is to help the client obtain all of the credits they qualifyfor and to encourage them to use their tax refunds to become more financially stable. Suggestions include setting up an emergency fund, paying down debt, paying for additional schooling, or making needed car and home repairs. While having their taxes done, clients are invited to complete our "Get Connected" card that helps us maintain our relationship with them throughout the year. This enables us to contact them concerning programs and services (ours and those…
$960,319 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $960,319.
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 2023 to 2024, from $310k to $557k (+80%).
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: 2017 75% · 2018 57% · 2019 19% · 2020 49% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Cottages of Hope Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Board chair
Matt Dixon
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $24.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Cottages of Hope Inc’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
Cottages of Hope Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 Cottages of Hope Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 81% · 2020 71% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of Cottages of Hope Inc's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94 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
Cottages of Hope Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Cottages of Hope Inc
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cottages of Hope Inc: 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 Cottages of Hope Inc?
- Cottages of Hope Inc (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,514 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ($124,620). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cottages of Hope Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $202,514 in grants to Cottages of Hope Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cottages of Hope Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH is the largest funder on record, with $124,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cottages of Hope Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 5 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