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HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED

HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,250 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($229,733). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$637k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$452k
Net assets
$705k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Hope Alive Incorporated does

Mission

To bring the healing hope of Jesus to the hurting children of Africa. To introduce children to Jesus Christ and help them grow in Him, to provide them with a decent basic education and to assist them in acquiring a skill so that they can take a strategic place in their community and impact it for Jesus.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided grants to Hope Alive, Limited in Uganda to support orphans and fragile families with an emphasis on education and spiritual formation.

    $505,884 spentof which $505,884 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $505,884.

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 ($666k) Expenses 100 ($323k) Net assets 100 ($456k)2020 Revenue 50 ($333k) Expenses 99 ($320k) Net assets 104 ($473k)2021 Revenue 55 ($364k) Expenses 113 ($365k) Net assets 103 ($472k)2022 Revenue 68 ($453k) Expenses 127 ($409k) Net assets 113 ($516k)2023 Revenue 75 ($500k) Expenses 139 ($448k) Net assets 119 ($544k)2024 Revenue 93 ($622k) Expenses 168 ($544k) Net assets 142 ($646k)2025 Revenue 96 ($637k) Expenses 179 ($577k) Net assets 154 ($705k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (96)Expenses (179)Net assets (154)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 2023 to 2024, from $544k to $662k (+22%).

$457k
$473k
$472k
$516k
$544k
$662k
$705k
2019202020212022202320242025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$343k
’19
$12k
’20
−$2k
’21
$44k
’22
$52k
’23
$78k
’24
$59k
’25
15
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed888810118
Joined·+0+0+0+3+1+2
No longer listed·000105
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $83k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 ALIVE INCORPORATED’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 ALIVE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 ALIVE INCORPORATED.

51%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 72% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 61% — 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

60% of HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

93% of HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

NY
PA
NJ
CA

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

’18
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $419k 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 ALIVE INCORPORATED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve14.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 5%Fundraising 8%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 20 states

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
KS
TN
NC
SC
HI
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED?
HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,250 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($229,733). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $452,250 in grants to HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $229,733 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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