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HOME START HOPE

HOME START HOPE (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,814 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$137k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$158k
Net assets
$199k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Home Start Hope does

Mission

To provide relief to the poor, distressed or underpriviliged, to lessen the burdens of government and to combat community deterioration by providing aid to those in need, including, but not limited to, women and their children who were former residents of bethany house, inc., a not-for-profit shelter located in rochester, new york, which provides emergency housing. The corporation will accomplish this through providing essential household items to those in need for use in establishing their new homes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide basic household necessities to clients as determined by the bethany house, inc. 100 clients served

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($81k)2018 Revenue 131 ($79k) Expenses 204 ($59k) Net assets 125 ($101k)2019 Revenue 153 ($93k) Expenses 210 ($61k) Net assets 161 ($131k)2020 Revenue 129 ($78k) Expenses 251 ($73k) Net assets 167 ($136k)2021 Revenue 235 ($142k) Expenses 219 ($64k) Net assets 263 ($214k)2022 Revenue 203 ($123k) Expenses 499 ($146k) Net assets 236 ($191k)2023 Revenue 200 ($121k) Expenses 445 ($130k) Net assets 224 ($182k)2024 Revenue 266 ($161k) Expenses 548 ($160k) Net assets 226 ($184k)2025 Revenue 226 ($137k) Expenses 417 ($122k) Net assets 245 ($199k)
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Revenue (226)Expenses (417)Net assets (245)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $193k to $283k (+46%).

$168k
$176k
$198k
$193k
$283k
$259k
$241k
$239k
$247k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of HOME START HOPE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
’17
$20k
’18
$32k
’19
$5k
’20
$78k
’21
−$22k
’22
−$9k
’23
$1k
’24
$15k
’25

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

Kristin Mathis

CEO

Board chair

Amanda Williams

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $545 → $54.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 HOME START 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

HOME START HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 HOME START HOPE.

42%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 50% · 2022 64% · 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.

How long its funders stay

25% of HOME START HOPE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

61% of HOME START 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 $61k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
SC
LA
AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOME START HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HOME START 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOME START 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 HOME START HOPE?
HOME START HOPE (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,814 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOME START HOPE have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $157,814 in grants to HOME START HOPE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOME START HOPE?
ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOME START HOPE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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