California · Nonprofit
Hope Beyond Inc
Hope Beyond Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being THE OSTROFF FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $300
- Net assets
- $12k
What Hope Beyond Inc does
Mission
Provide resources assistance and support for those transitioning out of prison.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Hope beyond conducts an inmate correspondence program through which its staff and 72 volunteers email mail and speak with 362 incarcerated women. These individuals develop healthy relationships outside of the prison system providing hope while incarcerated and helping them integrate into society once released.
$967 spent6% of program spendingHope beyond counsels incarcerated individuals as they prepare for parole board suitability hearings. The staff assisted 67 incarcerated persons overcome impediments to being suitable for parole and equiped them to participate in society upon release reducing recidivism. Staff made 47 online appearances for enbanc hearings.
$3,875 spent24% of program spendingHope beyond staff and 19 volunteers provided post-release assistance to 56 formerly incarcerated persons by providing information and referrals to organizations that provide transitional housing advising on employment opportunities and making referrals to services that assist with life skills and relapse prevention.
$11,513 spent70% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,355.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $35k to $12k (−66%).
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 Beyond Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Celia Firl
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Hope Beyond 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Hope Beyond Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Beyond Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Hope Beyond 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 California
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 Beyond Inc: 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 Beyond Inc?
- Hope Beyond Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being THE OSTROFF FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hope Beyond Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300 in grants to Hope Beyond Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Hope Beyond Inc?
- THE OSTROFF FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hope Beyond Inc 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.
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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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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