South Carolina · Nonprofit
HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN
HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN (South Carolina) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,008,345 to it, the largest being MARY BLACK FOUNDATION INC ($1,144,129). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Hope Center for Children does
Mission
Hope Center for Children's mission is to build stable, healthy families in the upstate of sc by providing a safe place from abuse and neglect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential programs for youth in foster care: the center provides around-the clock care for children who are victims of abuse or neglect, through our residential shelter, and group home for teenage girls and boys, and sibling groups. These programs served 56 children during fiscal year 2025, 32 children during fiscal year 2024, offering an evidence-based model that creates a family style environment and helps youth internalize the social and life skills they need to be successful. 90% of the residents at anchor house taking the casey life skills test showed life skills improvement in pre and post-test and 100% of school aged residents in the emergency shelter attended school regularly.
$1,818,758 spent46% of program spendingPositive parenting program: also called triple p, this is a parent education model that has proven to help parents build strong, healthy relationships with their children and feel more confident in navigating their child's most challenging days. This program has an array of interventions designed to offer different levels of intensity, from tip sheets to broad-reach seminars to a more intensive 10-week intervention for highly motivated parents or caregivers struggling through behavioral problems with a child. The positive parenting program engaged 737 caregivers during fiscal year 2025. Of the 737 engaged, 707 completed the program yielding a retention rate of 96%. During 90-day follow-up calls, 100% of the caregivers reported they no longer lose control when dealing with their children. During those same follow-ups, 80% reported that they give regular praise to the children in their care. In addition, pre and post protective factor survey data reveal that 70% showed improved family functioning, and 75% had improved knowledge of their children.
$743,452 spent19% of program spendingTransitional living program (tlp): this program serves runaway or homeless youth between 16 and 22 years old, making sure that in 18 months of service, they save money for their next permanent residence, get a job and gain the skills to be self-sufficient. Many youths served were formerly in foster care. The program served 22 youth during the fiscal year 2025. The program served 9 youth during fiscal year 2024. During fiscal year 2025, 100% of those served showed improvement in knowing how to keep themselves safe, and 100% felt the housing was safe.
$547,994 spent14% of program spendingFamily resource connection and preservation services (frcps): this program provides parenting and in-home case management services to lower risks of child abuse/neglect. Families are referred by the sc department of social services to get support services to address families from experiencing the trauma of abuse of neglect. The program served 129 families during fiscal year 2025, helping them to overcome social isolation, meeting their child's basic needs, inappropriate supervision, etc. The program served 76 parents during fiscal year 2024.
$457,776 spent12% of program spendingClinicial support services: the clinical arm serves both residents in hope center's care as well as children, family, and adults in the community.all residents benefit from the assessment functions of this arm, and residents not connected to a therapist at intake benefit from therapy as needed.in the 2024 fiscal year, the residential arm served 26 youth while the community arm served 10 clients.the community arm in 2025 served 50 clients and the residential arm served 60 youth.
$403,284 spent10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,971,264.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.3M to $5.2M (+20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 53% · 2019 60% · 2020 62% · 2021 65% · 2022 53% · 2023 83% · 2024 74% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Vernon Hayes
CEO
Board chair
Jody Babb
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $283k → $689k.
13 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 CENTER FOR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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 CENTER FOR CHILDREN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 CENTER FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 39% · 2019 30% · 2020 40% · 2021 32% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% — 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
50% of HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
76% of HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: 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 CENTER FOR CHILDREN?
- HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN (South Carolina) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,008,345 to it, the largest being MARY BLACK FOUNDATION INC ($1,144,129). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $5,008,345 in grants to HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN?
- MARY BLACK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,144,129 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 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