Michigan · Nonprofit
GROWING HOPE INC
GROWING HOPE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,649,288 to it, the largest being Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation ($453,252). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Growing Hope Inc does
Mission
Fosters an equitable and sustainable local food system where all people are empowered to grow, sell, buy, prepare, and eat nourishing food.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Farm & gardens by the numbers: -5,122 pounds of produce from our farm went directly back into the community -10,000 seedlings were given to area gardeners for home and community gardens -79 new garden beds were built for our home vegetable garden program participants -25 households and 5 businesses participated in our community composting program, diverting thousands of pounds of waste -300+ individuals participated in our hands-on gardening and cultivation workshops -30 community gardens supported
$271,150 spentof which $21,137 as grants$2,203 earned by the program32% of program spendingYpsilanti farmers markets by the numbers: -272,000 of local foods and goods were sold through the ypsilanti farmers markets -15% of all market sales used food assistance -87 local farmers and food producers sold their products through the ypsilanti farmers markets -on average, 850 individuals visited the downtown farmers market, and 320 visited the indoor winter market each week -100 youth registered for and participated in our power of produce club
$197,606 spent$10,970 earned by the program23% of program spendingYouth & schools by the numbers: -14 teens participated in our teen leadership program -85 stem-based field trips and youth-engagement events to the growing hope urban farm & ypsilanti farmers market place -16 classrooms participated in farm to school activities -2 new youth-driven and stewarded spaces were activated on our farm
$240,610 spent$120 earned by the program28% of program spendingAbout the makers: -26 local businesses utilized the growing home incubator kitchen services -70% black, indigenous, or person of color-owned and operated businesses -62% women-owned and operated businesses -4 makers graduated into their own brick-and-mortar
$143,471 spent$45,683 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $852,837.
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 $2.2M to $2.8M (+26%).
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: 2017 37% · 2018 27% · 2019 28% · 2020 9% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 25% · 2024 29% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of GROWING HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Tess Rian
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $191k → $266k.
11 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 GROWING HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
GROWING HOPE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
63% 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 GROWING HOPE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 46% · 2019 41% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 18% · 2023 38% — 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
58% of GROWING HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
93% of GROWING HOPE INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
GROWING HOPE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GROWING HOPE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $348k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$348k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GROWING 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROWING 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 GROWING HOPE INC?
- GROWING HOPE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,649,288 to it, the largest being Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation ($453,252). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWING HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $3,649,288 in grants to GROWING HOPE INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWING HOPE INC?
- Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $453,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWING HOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 50 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