Minnesota · Nonprofit
GAME PLAN 4 HOPE
GAME PLAN 4 HOPE (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,079 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GAME PLAN 4 HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- American Legion Post 0478local
- Houston Diesels Incportfolio match
- Jim Hudson Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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: 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of GAME PLAN 4 HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $317.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 GAME PLAN 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
GAME PLAN 4 HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 GAME PLAN 4 HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 46% · 2022 93% · 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
90% of GAME PLAN 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Legion Post 0478localMN · funds 4 organizations near you
- Houston Diesels Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim Hudson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marasek Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Higher Rock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Colquitt County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Faith and Freedom Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kengena Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fostering Success Act Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Libertore Fund for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- G Andrew Franz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hudiburg Family Foundation Inc Attn David Hudiburgportfolio 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 GAME PLAN 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 GAME PLAN 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 GAME PLAN 4 HOPE?
- GAME PLAN 4 HOPE (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,079 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GAME PLAN 4 HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $56,079 in grants to GAME PLAN 4 HOPE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAME PLAN 4 HOPE?
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAME PLAN 4 HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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