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HOPE 4 HARPER

HOPE 4 HARPER (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,662,870 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,543,389). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$4k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$71k
4/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Hope 4 Harper does

Mission

Hope4harper is a 501c3 not for profit organization created to provide hope, through research and awareness, to those living with cdkl5 disorder and other related diseases.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. PreClinical Research - We collaborate with and support leading research laboratories around the world, and fill the gaps of information that will help accelerate the development of treatments for CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder. Life After CDKL5 - Provide resources and support to families who have lost family members to the CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder.

    $18,048 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,048.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($474k) Expenses 100 ($327k) Net assets 100 ($180k)2020 Revenue 47 ($225k) Expenses 62 ($202k) Net assets 114 ($204k)2021 Revenue 108 ($511k) Expenses 162 ($530k) Net assets 102 ($183k)2022 Revenue 93 ($440k) Expenses 162 ($531k) Net assets 50 ($90k)2023 Revenue 36 ($170k) Expenses 49 ($161k) Net assets 55 ($99k)2024 Revenue 1 ($4k) Expenses 10 ($32k) Net assets 40 ($71k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1)Expenses (10)Net assets (40)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 2021 to 2022, from $183k to $89k (−51%).

$181k
$222k
$183k
$89k
$104k
$76k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of HOPE 4 HARPER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$147k
’19
$23k
’20
−$19k
’21
−$90k
’22
$10k
’23
−$28k
’24
8.1
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

Penny Howard

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
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Joined·+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·10000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $171k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 HOPE 4 HARPER’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

HOPE 4 HARPER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 HOPE 4 HARPER.

93%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 76% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% — 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

50% of HOPE 4 HARPER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

97% of HOPE 4 HARPER'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 3 states.

MN
IL
CA

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

HOPE 4 HARPER's revenue fell 99% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin−659% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−61% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like HOPE 4 HARPER

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 42%Fundraising 3%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE 4 HARPER: 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 HOPE 4 HARPER?
HOPE 4 HARPER (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,662,870 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,543,389). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOPE 4 HARPER have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,662,870 in grants to HOPE 4 HARPER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE 4 HARPER?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,543,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE 4 HARPER 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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