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FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC

FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,461,933 to it, the largest being EFS FOUNDATION ($275,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$681k
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$5.1M
21/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Fox Valley Hands of Hope Inc does

Mission

We provide compassionate guidance and support for the grieving. Fox Valley Hands of Hope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing expert support for children, families, and adults who are experiencing grief, loss, or life-threatening illness.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fox valley hands of hope (fvhh) provides compassionate guidance and support for the grieving. We are a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization dedicated to providing expert support for youth, families, and adults who are experiencing grief due to a death loss.originally founded in 1981 to help individuals in hospice care, today we dedicate our attention to the needs of those who have experienced a death loss. By choosing support, our participants are choosing wellness, choosing to thrive as best they can given the circumstances.in 2024, our professional staff and 155 dedicated volunteers served client participants through programs, counseling, support groups and seminars. Services included:20 supportive programs30 school partnershipswe served:650 client participants600 youth and children 994 educational participants452 lending closet clientsfvhhs evidence-based programs are designed to support youth, families, and adults, regardless of age, income level, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs. Our programs are community-funded, allowing us to deliver the best guidance at no cost we believe that every person should be given hope without any restriction.

    $714,862 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $714,862.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($560k) Expenses 100 ($641k) Net assets 100 ($4.3M)2018 Revenue 105 ($586k) Expenses 102 ($652k) Net assets 111 ($4.8M)2019 Revenue 104 ($581k) Expenses 107 ($685k) Net assets 102 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 102 ($571k) Expenses 111 ($713k) Net assets 106 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 129 ($720k) Expenses 105 ($671k) Net assets 132 ($5.7M)2022 Revenue -19 ($-105210) Expenses 108 ($690k) Net assets 112 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 120 ($673k) Expenses 133 ($851k) Net assets 118 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 122 ($681k) Expenses 137 ($879k) Net assets 118 ($5.1M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (137)Net assets (118)

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 $4.6M to $5.7M (+25%).

$4.4M
$4.9M
$4.4M
$4.6M
$5.7M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$5.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 6% · 2019 2% · 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$81k
’17
−$66k
’18
−$104k
’19
−$142k
’20
$50k
’21
−$795k
’22
−$178k
’23
−$199k
’24
0.5
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1113111312151515
Joined·+5+0+3+1+3+2+5
No longer listed·3212025
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $55k → $190k.

5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

37% 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 FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC.

19%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 46% · 2019 32% · 2020 57% · 2021 44% · 2022 24% · 2023 39% — 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

50% of FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

72% of FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
NJ
MO
AZ
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FOX VALLEY HANDS 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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 13%Fundraising 6%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOX VALLEY HANDS 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 FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC?
FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,461,933 to it, the largest being EFS FOUNDATION ($275,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,461,933 in grants to FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC?
EFS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 33 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