Illinois · Nonprofit
HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS
HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,829,679 to it, the largest being Means Database Inc ($11,771,179). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS has grown faster than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- CoreGiving Coshared funders
- United Way of Coles County Incportfolio match
- Eastern Illinois Foodbankportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income held at $0.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 13 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
HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 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
HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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.
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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- CoreGiving Coshared fundersIL · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Coles County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eastern Illinois Foodbankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hinsdale Junior Woman's Club Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William R Johnson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen and Christy King Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northwest Illinois Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bradley Fedorow Perpetual Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Illinois Hospital Servicesportfolio 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 HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS: 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 HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS?
- HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,829,679 to it, the largest being Means Database Inc ($11,771,179). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $11,829,679 in grants to HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS?
- Means Database Inc is the largest funder on record, with $11,771,179 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13funders 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