Texas · Nonprofit
Homemade Hope for Homeless Children
Homemade Hope for Homeless Children (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,431 to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ($158,219). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $275k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $657k
- Net assets
- $191k
What Homemade Hope for Homeless Children does
Mission
Homemade Hope provides weekly cooking sessions, holiday celebrations, and community field trips to at-risk children living in the Houston area.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Held weekly culinary classes with clildren and their parents and weekly in-person and virtual culinary programs at partner sites throughout Houston. Worked with children to prepare holiday celebrations where children learn about the history and traditions of the holiday while joining in the preparation of their food. Continued a partnership with Urban Harvests mobile farmers market for a nutrition and culinary education program teaching families how to select, prepare, and store the produce sold at cost by the market. Hosted over thirty summer field trips helping children connect with community outside their circumstances.
$309,578 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $309,578.
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 2022 to 2023, from $290k to $191k (−34%).
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.
56% of Homemade Hope for Homeless Children’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Blair Bentley
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $69k → $55k.
3 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Homemade Hope for Homeless Children’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
Homemade Hope for Homeless Children has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 Homemade Hope for Homeless Children.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 73% · 2019 65% · 2020 51% · 2021 32% · 2022 24% · 2023 36% — 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
25% of Homemade Hope for Homeless Children'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
91% of Homemade Hope for Homeless Children's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.
Against its field
Homemade Hope for Homeless Children has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,056 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Homemade Hope for Homeless Children
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Homemade Hope for Homeless Children: 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 Homemade Hope for Homeless Children?
- Homemade Hope for Homeless Children (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,431 to it, the largest being THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC ($158,219). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Homemade Hope for Homeless Children have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $657,431 in grants to Homemade Hope for Homeless Children, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Homemade Hope for Homeless Children?
- THE CHILDREN'S FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $158,219 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Homemade Hope for Homeless Children find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 32 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