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Hope Cancer Resources

Hope Cancer Resources (Arkansas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,209 to it, the largest being THE CANCER CHALLENGE ($1,065,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.6M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$286k
23/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Hope Cancer Resources does

Mission

The mission of Hope Cancer Resources is to provide compassionate, professional cancer support and education in the Northwest Arkansas region today and tomorrow. All of our services are provided free of charge to cancer patients, thier families and our community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Program - Wellness Hope Cancer Resources helps ease the financial burden brought on by cancer by providing financial assistance in paying a patients everyday living expenses utility bills, mortgage or rent payments, car paymetns, and such, providing prescription assistance and providing gas cards to help with getting back and forth to treatments. In addition, emotional assistance is provided by our staff of licensed social workers, including one-on-one assessments to identify needs, counseling, and patient navigation. All of our services are provided free of charge.

    $278,860 spent
    9% of program spending
  2. Program - Patient Services Hope Cancer Resources provides cancer prevention education programs in area schools, to civic groups, human services agencies and in other community venues. We also employ tobacco treatment specialists engaged in tobacco cessation programs on an individual and group basis. In addition, the Wellness Center for Hope promotes wellness and healthy living in cancer surviviors and caregivers by offering individualized exercise programs for survivors. Our objective with these programs is to help create a healthier Northwest Arkansas. All our services are provdied free of charge.

    $2,038,539 spent
    66% of program spending
  3. Program - Transportation Hope Cancer Resources provides free transportation to patients who have no other way to get to their treatments or to relieve the burden on family and friends. In 2024 we drove our 8 vehicles 334,954 miles transporting 388 patients on 8,425 trips. All our services are provided free of charge.

    $773,612 spent
    25% of program spending
  4. Program Service Expenses 6,949, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Program - Other Hope Cancer Resources Provides various other programs . Hope Cancer Resources Provides free interpretation and various other programs .

    $6,949 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,097,960.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($3k)2019 Revenue 95 ($3.2M) Expenses 94 ($3.2M) Net assets -569 ($-17760)2020 Revenue 104 ($3.5M) Expenses 96 ($3.3M) Net assets 5712 ($178k)2021 Revenue 108 ($3.6M) Expenses 106 ($3.6M) Net assets 5825 ($182k)2022 Revenue 121 ($4.0M) Expenses 118 ($4.0M) Net assets 6739 ($210k)2023 Revenue 130 ($4.3M) Expenses 125 ($4.3M) Net assets 9434 ($294k)2024 Revenue 138 ($4.6M) Expenses 136 ($4.6M) Net assets 9175 ($286k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (138)Expenses (136)Net assets (9175)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 2019 to 2020, from $188k to $368k (+96%).

$223k
$188k
$368k
$415k
$493k
$559k
$535k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of Hope Cancer Resources’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$53k
’18
−$21k
’19
$196k
’20
$4k
’21
$29k
’22
$84k
’23
−$8k
’24
0.6
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.

Chief executive

Brian Holt

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed22222224302625
Joined·+1+8+2+11+1+8
No longer listed·180559
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $205k → $546k.

13 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Cancer Resources’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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 Cancer Resources leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 Cancer Resources.

36%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 74% · 2019 56% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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

22% of Hope Cancer Resources's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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

60% of Hope Cancer Resources's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

MI
CT
RI
CO
MO
KY
DE
NM
AR
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $398k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 Cancer Resources's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 17%Fundraising 16%

Governance

24
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Hope Cancer Resources Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Hope Cancer Resources?
Hope Cancer Resources (Arkansas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,921,209 to it, the largest being THE CANCER CHALLENGE ($1,065,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Hope Cancer Resources have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,921,209 in grants to Hope Cancer Resources, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Hope Cancer Resources?
THE CANCER CHALLENGE is the largest funder on record, with $1,065,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Hope Cancer Resources find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 37 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