North Carolina · Nonprofit
Fields of Hope
Fields of Hope (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,005,398 to it, the largest being Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation ($840,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $862k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $270k
What Fields of Hope does
Mission
FOH addresses a critical service gap for young survivors in the Charlotte metro area. FOH provides nationally accredited residential services for young victims of sex trafficking and was the first organization to do so in the United States when we opened our first safe house in 2009. Annually, we serve 50+ young adults through FOH residential and community-based programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Homes of Hope offers long-term residential housing, 24/7 support, therapy, healthcare, and life skills training to help survivors stabilize and heal. The house is at capacity. In 2024 we served 16 different young women between the ages of 17 1/2 - 24.Life of Hope supports survivors transitioning into society with assistance in higher education, employment,and housing.
$838,680 spent$122,890 earned by the program100% of program spendingJourney of Hope provides work empowerment through paid internships where survivors create handmade goods, gaining job skills and confidence.
$13,983 earned by the programYouth for Hope (Y4H) was founded in 2014 as the prevention and awareness arm of Fields of Hope (FOH) an eighteen-year-old 501c3 based in Charlotte, NC, which works to prevent children and youth from falling victim to sex trafficking, offer assistance to those still trapped, and restore those that have survived by providing hope, empowerment and a brighter future. Annually, over 300,000 children, average age 12, are sold into the sex slave trade in the U.S. N.C. is among the top ten states for this crime, and Charlotte is the #1 city in the Carolinas for human trafficking. Y4H focuses on empowering our nation's youth to protect themselves, educate their friends, and prevent crime before it happens. Youth for Hope provides prevention and awareness through a unique peer-to-peer-led curriculum delivered throughout the Carolinas through clubs within high schools, colleges, church youth groups, and community groups. Y4H-trained volunteers, both students and young adults, design and execute community prevention and awareness events to culminate or launch Y4H clubs. Y4H has impacted over 15,000 youth across the region with its radically different human trafficking prevention model. Y4H's…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $838,680.
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 $496k to $277k (−44%).
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 16% · 2021 34% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Fields of Hope’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Melissa Hall
Executive Director
Board chair
Bruce D Henning
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 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 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $70k → $290k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Fields 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
Fields of Hope leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 Fields of Hope.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 50% · 2019 51% · 2020 60% · 2021 45% · 2022 43% · 2023 45% — 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
54% of Fields of Hope's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
89% of Fields of Hope's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Fields of Hope has grown faster than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Fields of 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fields of 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 Fields of Hope?
- Fields of Hope (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,005,398 to it, the largest being Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation ($840,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fields of Hope have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,005,398 in grants to Fields of Hope, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fields of Hope?
- Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $840,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fields of Hope find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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