Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,078 to it, the largest being NATUREBRIDGE ($13,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Hope Community Public Charter School does
Mission
Hope community provides scholars with experiences to enhance their education. These experiences incorporate science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math (steam) into projects that connects our school from pk 3- 8th grade. Along with our eureka math and into reading academic core curriculum, we also support our scholars collaboratively with conflict resolution practices and support individuals with personal strategies to support their social emotional health through our sel curriculum, second steps. For scholars that need additional academic support, hope community employees multiple math and reading interventionists that utilize high quality supplemental curriculum which directly compliments our core curriculum. At hope community we celebrate diversity. We are proud to serve scholars who are learning english through our ell programming and receive direct support from our ell teachers and bilingual parent liaison.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The charter school provides students with an integrated educational approach that places a heavy emphasis on the arts, music, and literature. In addition to the core subjects that are traditionally covered, the school works to nurture the character of each student through a staff that teaches and models excellence and the establishment of character-forming rituals and traditions. The students are taught the importance of community by working alongside parents/guardians and community members in pursuit of our mission. The formation of a strong community begins with the way we structure the school into smaller communities. In addition to pre-kindergarten for ages three and four, the school has a primary academy (pk-3), intermediate academy (3-5), and prep academy (6-8). These smaller communities enable teachers to build strong relationships with students and work closely with fellow staff members. The school also offers tutoring to assist students that require additional support. Hope community believes that parents have the primary responsibility for teaching their children and it is the school's role to work alongside parents and support them in this task. Hope community asks…
$7,945,543 spent$6,878,144 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,945,543.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $3.8M (−75%).
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 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 7% · 2020 6% · 2021 12% · 2022 21% · 2023 33% · 2024 32% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Kerry Smith
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $9k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,078 to it, the largest being NATUREBRIDGE ($13,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $29,078 in grants to HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL?
- NATUREBRIDGE is the largest funder on record, with $13,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 3 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