California · Nonprofit
GIVING CHILDREN HOPE
GIVING CHILDREN HOPE (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,667,020 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Giving Children Hope does
Mission
We help children and families in southern california who are housing unstable and looking to build a community to sustain support in areas of food, essentials, and a pathway out of poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Partner support: through a network of partner organizations the partner support program provides local and international communities with basic necessities to meet the needs of their communities. Current partners that benefit from the program include nonprofit agencies, churches and missionaries, pregnancy clinics, homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation programs, and youth programs.
$9,839,711 spentof which $9,176,020 as grants$1,061,535 earned by the program78% of program spendingWgyb: the we've got your back (wgyb) program partners with local orange and los angeles county schools to identify children in crisis, brings them to stability by meeting their nutritional needs and builds their parent's capacity to empower them to create strong futures for their family. School staff members refer the students most in need within their schools to wgyb where they begin receiving a backpack full of food that will last a family of four for at least three days. Parents who sign up for the program are encouraged to participate in classes or volunteer at their school site. This program strategy helps to build skills for parents in areas such as financial management, nutrition, and parenting, while also increasing their engagement, a key factor in improving academic success for low-income students. Each week, wgyb partners with more than 60 schools to serve over 4,000 individuals with needed food.
$2,805,035 spentof which $2,388,458 as grants22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,644,746.
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.
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 $5.3M to $11M (+112%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GIVING CHILDREN HOPE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Peter Bowen
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $88k → $224k.
15 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $59k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Giving Children Hope). These are real filings, and they are not money GIVING CHILDREN HOPE raised.
From the IRS filings of GIVING CHILDREN HOPE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
GIVING CHILDREN HOPE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
70% 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 GIVING CHILDREN HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 16% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 18% · 2023 12% — 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
36% of GIVING CHILDREN HOPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
75% of GIVING CHILDREN HOPE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $747k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
GIVING CHILDREN HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GIVING CHILDREN 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 California
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
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIVING CHILDREN 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 GIVING CHILDREN HOPE?
- GIVING CHILDREN HOPE (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,667,020 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($250,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIVING CHILDREN HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $1,667,020 in grants to GIVING CHILDREN HOPE, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIVING CHILDREN HOPE?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIVING CHILDREN HOPE 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.
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 66 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