Colorado · Nonprofit
HOPE COMMUNITIES INC
HOPE COMMUNITIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,683,833 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,112,097). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Hope Communities Inc does
Mission
We strengthen communities and provide pathways to economic and personal opportunity through affordable housing, educational programs and support services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs: Real Estate Development, Affordable Housing with Deeply Supportive ServicesHope Communities was established 46 years ago, in 1980, by visionaries Ray and Marilyn Stranske. It was initiated as a means to provide training, support services, and housing to low-income individuals and families either experiencing or at the brink of homelessness. They quickly realized that people had a difficult time advancing toward self-sufficiency if they did not have a safe place to call home. They began a quest to offer quality, affordable housing with supportive programs and services, which has been vitally important ever since. Over the years, Hope has built, purchased, or renovated nearly 800 rental units for low-income renters.The organization's genesis occurred in the historic Five Points neighborhood, though over the years, they expanded their inventory to provide rental units in multiple neighborhoods in Denver. They were the first to build a new mixed-use, mixed-income TOD building on Denver's Welton Street light rail line with 9% Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), renovated a 130-unit apartment complex in East Denver, and purchased 93 townhouses in North Park Hill. Most…
$5,275,612 spent$2,205,060 earned by the program100% of program spendingPrograms: Housing Stability, Education, Resource Navigation, basic needs, economic mobility & employment, health & wellness, refugee integration programs, youth programs, and civic engagement/ community-building.We create and offer residents and individuals from area neighborhoods quality educational and enrichment opportunities unique to the individuals we serve. We strive for Hope's residents to be empowered, self-sustainable, and active members of the greater community. We provide both direct programs and services, as well as leverage third-party service providers to assist Hope Communities residents and neighbors. Hope has provided housing, programs, and services to 6,192 clients in the last year. All programs and services are tailored to client needs, cultural nuances, and provided by staff who speak over 21 languages.*Housing Stability: Hope provided affordable housing to about 480 individuals at 4 properties across Denver in 2025. Navigators also helped 1,867 clients from the broader community to secure and retain stable housing. *Resource Navigation many clients who live on Hope properties and from surrounding neighborhoods need assistance securing basic needs and getting…
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,275,612.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $17M (+42%).
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.
50% of HOPE COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Sharon A Knight
President & CEO
Board chair
Greg Glade
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $63k → $690k.
5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 COMMUNITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 COMMUNITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
57% 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 COMMUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 54% · 2019 27% · 2020 17% · 2021 43% · 2022 58% · 2023 52% — 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
40% of HOPE COMMUNITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
87% of HOPE COMMUNITIES INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $711k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 COMMUNITIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE COMMUNITIES 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Kittyhawk LLC · disregarded
- Hope Communities Neighborhood Center LLC · disregarded
- Hope Development LLC · disregarded
- Westerly Creek Homes LLC · disregarded
- Minute Spot LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE COMMUNITIES 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 COMMUNITIES INC?
- HOPE COMMUNITIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,683,833 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,112,097). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE COMMUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,683,833 in grants to HOPE COMMUNITIES INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE COMMUNITIES INC?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,112,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE COMMUNITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 40 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