Illinois · Nonprofit
HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES
HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,420 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($46,296). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $245k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $167k
What Hope and Friendship Ministries does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose is to extend a hand of friendship to those in financial emotional and physical crisis. To reassure that someone is aware of their struggles and is willing to listen and provide any means of aid possible. We are a conduit between those that have and those that need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing Assistance - Families in financial crisis are assisted in various ways to help cover costs such as rent mortgage payments utilities etc. The temporary assistance enables those in need to stay in their homes with no family disruption while they get back to financial stability.
$67,991 spentof which $67,991 as grants36% of program spendingFood and Household Assistance - Care packages of food and household supplies are provided to families in need throughout the year. Thanksgiving dinners served 540 Christmas dinners served 551 and 1806 sack lunches were provided for seniors and homeless shelters in the area.
$64,735 spentof which $64,735 as grants34% of program spendingYouth and Family Activities - Various outreach programs are provided to engage families and youth in need with support and encouragement. The following activities are held: Unbirthday Party Youth Yeah Days Family Swim Night Winter Clothing Drive and Prom Resale Event.
$23,235 spentof which $23,235 as grants12% of program spendingTransportation is providing gas cards and car repairs so families can continue to work and provide for their families
$20,306 spentof which $20,306 as grants11% of program spendingEducation is providing college or trade school scholarships for those in need and the community
$10,250 spentof which $10,250 as grants5% of program spendingMedical and Cancer Outreach is helping those in the community cope with illness
$4,691 spentof which $4,691 as grants2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $191,208.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $119k to $149k (+25%).
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.
99% of HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Terri O'Neill Borders
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $200 → $6k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES’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 AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 86% · 2022 53% · 2023 41% — 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
25% of HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
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
69% of HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k 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.
Against its field
HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES: 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 AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES?
- HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,420 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($46,296). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $105,420 in grants to HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,296 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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