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FURNISHING HOPE INC

FURNISHING HOPE INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,467 to it, the largest being SWENSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($116,667). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$237k
Net assets
$2.9M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Furnishing Hope Inc does

Mission

Furnishing homes for families in crisis, in coordination with military service members, veterans and various other organizations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Furnishing hope is making a tremendous difference in the communities we serve. Clients & service members are referred by local shelters and the military. Donated furnishings are gathered from local manufacturers and distributors. Furnishing hope organizes and delivers this much needed furniture and supplies directly to the homes of families in need.furnishing hope has reached a milestone of furnishing over 1000 homes and donating more than 2500 beds to families in need. Furnishing hope is helping families as they become productive members of their community helping to stop the cycle of homelessness, one family at a time.

    $1,626,373 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,626,373.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($409k)2018 Revenue 145 ($1.7M) Expenses 125 ($1.4M) Net assets 176 ($717k)2019 Revenue 105 ($1.3M) Expenses 113 ($1.3M) Net assets 167 ($683k)2020 Revenue 83 ($988k) Expenses 67 ($764k) Net assets 222 ($908k)2021 Revenue 309 ($3.7M) Expenses 114 ($1.3M) Net assets 809 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 73 ($870k) Expenses 76 ($872k) Net assets 809 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 59 ($703k) Expenses 78 ($892k) Net assets 763 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 120 ($1.4M) Expenses 147 ($1.7M) Net assets 706 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (147)Net assets (706)Peer revenue range

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 $908k to $3.3M (+268%).

$420k
$717k
$683k
$908k
$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.0M
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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: 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

113% of FURNISHING HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’17
$309k
’18
−$34k
’19
$225k
’20
$2.4M
’21
−$1k
’22
−$189k
’23
−$242k
’24
16
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.

Chief executive

Elizabeth L Phillips

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0010000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $24k → $7k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 FURNISHING HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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

FURNISHING HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 53% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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

20% of FURNISHING 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

81% of FURNISHING HOPE INC's grant income comes from California funders.

MN
IL
CA
VA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FURNISHING HOPE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like FURNISHING HOPE INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FURNISHING HOPE INC?
FURNISHING HOPE INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,467 to it, the largest being SWENSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($116,667). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FURNISHING HOPE INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $237,467 in grants to FURNISHING HOPE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FURNISHING HOPE INC?
SWENSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $116,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FURNISHING HOPE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 11 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