Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DESIGNING 4 HOPE
DESIGNING 4 HOPE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,329 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($18,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
DESIGNING 4 HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,586 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,586 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Chester County Incshared funders
- Charles E & Carol J Miller Familyportfolio match
- Colten Cowell Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $35.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 DESIGNING 4 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
DESIGNING 4 HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 DESIGNING 4 HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 60% · 2019 63% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of DESIGNING 4 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 $14k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Chester County Incshared fundersPA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Charles E & Carol J Miller Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colten Cowell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kwco Cares Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deeper Life Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mars Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chartway Promise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norwex Foundation for A Brighter Future Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- G Andrew Franz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society for Incentive Travel Excellence Southern California Chapterportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ewomennetwork Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DESIGNING 4 HOPE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
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 DESIGNING 4 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DESIGNING 4 HOPE?
- DESIGNING 4 HOPE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,329 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($18,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DESIGNING 4 HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $38,329 in grants to DESIGNING 4 HOPE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESIGNING 4 HOPE?
- Chester County Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $18,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESIGNING 4 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing