Mississippi · Nonprofit
HOPE ALIGHT
HOPE ALIGHT (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,051 to it, the largest being Mutual Credit Union Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Hope Alight does
Mission
The primary purpose of this organization is prevent and eliminate human suffering caused by home fire emergencies and promote fire safety in underserved communities by mobilizing educational and financial resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Safety Voucher - Families that have experienced loss due to home fires are provided with a voucher for temporary shelter, essential items and food.
$2,270 spent25% of program spendingFire Safety for All (FSFA) - Save A Life The purpose of this program is to bring preparedness and greater awareness of fire safety to higher-risk communities throughout Mississippi. We provide education on fire prevention and supply families with emergency fire kits for homes.
$3,710 spent41% of program spendingFire Department Aid (FDA) - Our organization assists the local fire department by providing smoke alarms to be distributed in the community.
$251 spent3% of program spendingOther Programs - Partnered with Walmart and the Holly Springs Police Department for the Shop With A Cop program to make the holidays special for families in the Holly Springs! In addition, partnership with local communities to provide school supplies.
$2,860 spent31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,091.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $5k to $8k (+55%).
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.
100% of HOPE ALIGHT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Tina Austin
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ALIGHT’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 ALIGHT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of HOPE ALIGHT's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51 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.
Against its field
HOPE ALIGHT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,318 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,318 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE ALIGHT
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE ALIGHT: 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 ALIGHT?
- HOPE ALIGHT (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,051 to it, the largest being Mutual Credit Union Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE ALIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,051 in grants to HOPE ALIGHT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE ALIGHT?
- Mutual Credit Union Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE ALIGHT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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