North Carolina · Nonprofit
GEMMAS HOPE
GEMMAS HOPE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565 to it, the largest being THE CHURCHILL FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Gemmas Hope does
Mission
Bereavement Book Carts (primary program): providing practical, free books, keepsakes, and resources to parents whose baby has died as they navigate their grief journey toward healing. Perinatal bereavement training to nurses and staff is offered along with resources to further their understanding of this traumatic grief. Reached over 1500 additional families in the USA in 2024.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Gave away over 500 books to grieving parents on pregnancy and infant loss topics. Provided over 1200 pamphlets listing practical resources like lists of local counselors, grief and support groups, and events where parents can remember their babies and hopefully find healing and support. Supporting a total of 22 hospitals in the US with these Bereavement Book Carts.
$9,533 spentof which $1,000 as grants77% of program spendingProvided the Charlotte Perinatal Bereavement Conference in person and online for nurses OBGYN and other hospital staff to earn CEU credits and learn more about caring for their vulnerable and grieving patients. 33 nurses attended in total.
$2,903 spentof which $1,000 as grants23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,436.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $3k to $14k (+433%).
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.
83% of GEMMAS HOPE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ally Shaw
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 GEMMAS 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
GEMMAS HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
GEMMAS HOPE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GEMMAS HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like GEMMAS 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEMMAS 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 GEMMAS HOPE?
- GEMMAS HOPE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565 to it, the largest being THE CHURCHILL FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEMMAS HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,565 in grants to GEMMAS HOPE.
- Who is the largest funder of GEMMAS HOPE?
- THE CHURCHILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEMMAS 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.
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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 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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