Alabama · Nonprofit
FILTER OF HOPE INC
FILTER OF HOPE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,870,875 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,468,102). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Filter of Hope Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to bring clean drinking water and the gospel of jesus christ to families worldwide in desperate need of both. We carry out this mission through short-term trips in latin america and partnerships with church planters reaching unreached people groups. Filter of hope exists to create socio-spiritual transformation for families living in severe poverty worldwide. This is done by providing clean drinking water through the distribution of household water filters and sharing the "living water" of jesus christ in partnership with local churches and ministries around the globe. The filter of hope ministry model allows families in desperate need to experience "health for today and hope for tomorrow"
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Filter of hope relies on funding from individuals, businesses, churches and foundations to fulfill its mission. Filter of hope carries out its ministry through two primary strategies. First, the ministry mobilizes thousands of college students and church members each year from across the united states on short-term mission trips throughout latin america. With 30 established ministry bases, filter of hope partners with local churches to ensure long-term sustainability, follow-up, and discipleship for new believers. Second, filter of hope works with indigenous missionaries and church planters to bring clean water and the gospel to unreached people groups in africa, the middle east, and asia, reaching remote communities where most have never heard the name of jesus. Every water filter distribution is accompanied by a clear presentation of the gospel, forming an effective and compassionate evangelism strategy.
$6,500,144 spent84% of program spendingStaff assists with team coordination, trip planning, logistics and leading short term mission trips. Staff also works on all global ministry initiatives and projects of filter of hope.
$1,284,283 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,784,427.
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.
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 $6.1M to $9.6M (+57%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $57k → $1.2M.
21 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 FILTER OF HOPE INC’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
FILTER OF HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 FILTER OF HOPE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 53% · 2019 58% · 2020 85% · 2021 59% · 2022 89% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of FILTER OF HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
87% of FILTER OF HOPE INC'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 $494k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Organizations like FILTER 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC?
- FILTER OF HOPE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,870,875 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,468,102). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FILTER OF HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $3,870,875 in grants to FILTER OF HOPE INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FILTER OF HOPE INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,468,102 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FILTER OF HOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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