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HOMES FOR HOPE

HOMES FOR HOPE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,957,648 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,193,630). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$4.4M
4/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Homes for Hope does

Mission

Mission: Homes for Hope partners with the building industry to invest in underserved families around the world for their holistic flourishing unto the glory of god. Method: building industry partners donate funds generated from domestic building projects to Homes for Hope, enabling us to support biblically based training, loans, and savings services that restore dignity and break the cycle of poverty. Motivation: Homes for Hope exists to love god and love others.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Homes for Hope works within the building industry forming partnerships with builders and their trade partners to create contributions through generating projects to provide financial resources to help alleviate physical and spiritual poverty in developing countries around the world. We are currently supporting christ-centered micro-enterprise development ministries in 17 countries around the world.

    $2,643,907 spentof which $2,600,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,643,907.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($971k)2018 Revenue 340 ($3.9M) Expenses 77 ($915k) Net assets 408 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.1M) Expenses 128 ($1.5M) Net assets 361 ($3.5M)2020 Revenue 178 ($2.0M) Expenses 119 ($1.4M) Net assets 425 ($4.1M)2021 Revenue 129 ($1.5M) Expenses 143 ($1.7M) Net assets 402 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 239 ($2.7M) Expenses 233 ($2.8M) Net assets 399 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 302 ($3.5M) Expenses 279 ($3.3M) Net assets 414 ($4.0M)2024 Revenue 298 ($3.4M) Expenses 301 ($3.6M) Net assets 399 ($3.9M)2025 Revenue 323 ($3.7M) Expenses 267 ($3.2M) Net assets 453 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (323)Expenses (267)Net assets (453)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $4.0M (+270%).

$1.1M
$4.0M
$3.9M
$4.1M
$4.1M
$4.3M
$4.5M
$4.5M
$4.6M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of HOMES FOR HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$42k
’17
$3.0M
’18
−$450k
’19
$617k
’20
−$219k
’21
−$29k
’22
$146k
’23
−$152k
’24
$533k
’25
1.3
months of
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

Matthew Baehr

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+2+2+1+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·01321200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $51k → $1.2M.

5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 HOMES FOR 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

HOMES FOR HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 HOMES FOR HOPE.

74%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 88% · 2023 54% — 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

57% of HOMES FOR HOPE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

92% of HOMES FOR 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 $234k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states.

PA
CA
NE
AZ
SC
TX
FL

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

’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

HOMES FOR HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like HOMES FOR 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 6%Fundraising 11%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

66%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 17 states

WA
ND
MN
MI
OR
PA
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
FL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Dignity Builders LLC · disregarded
  • Rutt Family Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOMES FOR 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 HOMES FOR HOPE?
HOMES FOR HOPE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,957,648 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,193,630). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOMES FOR HOPE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,957,648 in grants to HOMES FOR HOPE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOMES FOR HOPE?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,193,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOMES FOR HOPE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 13 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