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HOPE AFTER LOSS INC

HOPE AFTER LOSS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,313 to it, the largest being ISSA Charities ($105,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$141k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$149k
Net assets
$210k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Hope After Loss Inc does

Mission

Hope After Loss Inc. Helps those who experience pregnancy and or infant loss to find the inspiration of hope by providing connections, comfort and care.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To comfort and support those who grieve the loss of a pregnancy or infant, whether due to miscarriage, molar pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, premature birth, birth complications, genetic factors, illness and/or any other causes

    $61,408 spent
    82% of program spending
  2. Assist low income parents in connecticut who cannot afford a cremation or burial following the loss of a pregnancy or infant.

    $13,655 spent
    18% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $75,063.

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 ($135k) Expenses 100 ($90k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2019 Revenue 102 ($137k) Expenses 151 ($136k) Net assets 121 ($150k)2020 Revenue 91 ($123k) Expenses 146 ($131k) Net assets 112 ($139k)2021 Revenue 105 ($142k) Expenses 126 ($113k) Net assets 144 ($178k)2022 Revenue 125 ($170k) Expenses 162 ($146k) Net assets 155 ($191k)2023 Revenue 118 ($160k) Expenses 181 ($163k) Net assets 155 ($192k)2024 Revenue 92 ($125k) Expenses 145 ($130k) Net assets 158 ($195k)2025 Revenue 104 ($141k) Expenses 146 ($132k) Net assets 170 ($210k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (146)Net assets (170)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 $158k to $195k (+23%).

$124k
$150k
$158k
$195k
$191k
$192k
$195k
$210k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 14% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of HOPE AFTER LOSS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$45k
’17
$1k
’19
−$8k
’20
$29k
’21
$24k
’22
−$3k
’23
−$6k
’24
$9k
’25
9.4
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.

Board chair

Katie Christenson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1014131313121210
Joined··+3+0+0+3+2+1
No longer listed··400423
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $106k → $2k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 AFTER LOSS INC’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 AFTER LOSS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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

92% 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 AFTER LOSS INC.

70%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 41% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 62% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

14% of HOPE AFTER LOSS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

HOPE AFTER LOSS INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states in all.

MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
DE

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 AFTER LOSS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve9.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HOPE AFTER LOSS INC

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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 25%Fundraising 20%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPE AFTER LOSS INC?
HOPE AFTER LOSS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,313 to it, the largest being ISSA Charities ($105,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPE AFTER LOSS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $149,313 in grants to HOPE AFTER LOSS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE AFTER LOSS INC?
ISSA Charities is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE AFTER LOSS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 11 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