New York · Nonprofit
HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,648,966 to it, the largest being UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ($458,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Hope Community Services Inc does
Mission
Hope ("help our people eat") community services is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization serving the people of new rochelle and surrounding communities, within a spiritual, ecumenical dimension. Hope community services provides:- a warm, inviting atmosphere of personal and respectful service to the disadvantaged of this community for the needs of body, mind, heart, and spirit.hope community services challenges its clients to achieve:- personal responsibility- healthy self-sufficiency- a fuller appreciation of their dignity and self-worth- recognition of the interdependence of themselves and others.hope community services provides its services in an unbiased and non-discriminatory manner.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Food program - see schedule osoup kitchen -hope's soup kitchen provides a well-balanced hot meal to clients 52 weeks a year, 5 days a week. At 5 pm we serve a hot meal including fresh salad, soup, a main course with fresh vegetables, bread and butter, potatoes, rice or pasta and dessert. We also serve special holiday meals and, when available distribute fresh produce. In addition, the soup kitchen opens at 9 am and stays open until 7 pm for our homeless resource center (hrc) clients monday through friday. The hrc clients are served breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as snacks and beverages throughout the day. It has become a refuge for the homeless of new rochelle. Hope also provides breakfast and lunch for the residents of the oasis shelter on sunday morning.food pantry -hope's food pantry provides bagged groceries to the most vulnerable residents of new rochelle. Our clients include senior citizens existing on a fixed income, people with physical and mental challenges, people in recovery, working poor families, immigrants, newly unemployed and the homeless. The grocery bags distributed enable struggling individuals and families to reallocate a portion of their limited income to…
$2,495,719 spentof which $2,072,834 as grants79% of program spendingHousing stabilization programs - see schedule ohope's housing stabilization programs seek to prevent homelessness by providing rent assistance and information and referral services. It operates three major housing programs funded through the city of new rochelle, westchester department of social services, and housing and urban development (hud). All these programs offer critical housing support for clients. City of new rochelle re-housing initiative (cnr) is a permanent housing program for eligible homeless residents of westchester who have substance abuse and/or mental health disabilities. The program benefits individuals who are deemed to be housing-ready with a focus on homeless veterans. In addition to placing them in housing, the program provides case management and referrals to supportive services. It is federally funded through hud. The hrc (housing resource center) program provides access to shelter homeless people in the city of new rochelle. Guests are able to utilize hope community services dining room on weekdays, while also receiving breakfast lunch and dinner. In partnership with the oasis shelter, the program also provides assistance in locating housing and maintain…
$393,725 spentof which $174,722 as grants$21,719 earned by the program12% of program spendingCommunity outreach - see schedule ohope's community outreach/self-sufficiency program (ssp) helps low-income families access entitlements, find jobs, and obtain health care and substance abuse treatment. It also assists with citizenship and literacy classes, immigration issues and domestic violence issues. The program provides counseling and support to single mothers and works with them to problem solve and negotiate the day to day issues related to health care, education and social service systems on behalf of themselves and their children. Additionally, ssp provides clients with clothing, car seats, baby food, formula and diapers for their children. We offer help filling out applications for food stamps, medicare and medicaid and interface with the schools and medical providers on behalf of non english speaking clients. The ssp program offers walk-in crisis intervention, problem solving and referrals to all of hope's programs as well as referrals to other agencies and government entitlements. In addition to the outreach assistance, hope also holds several community events aimed at supporting the needs of the community. In 2023 hope hosted a mother's day mini holiday which…
$36,964 spent1% of program spendingHope has invested more efforts in services for children in low income families. In 2022, hope introduced several new initiatives aimed at supporting children in the community. Homework haven is hope's first satellite program and offers afterschool help for children living in a particular low-income complex. Homework haven operates 4 days a week during the school year and provides after school support and activities for children. The program was complemented by a corresponding program called fun fridays, which supported child mental health and family bonding. This program ran on fridays during the school year.hope also reintroduced camp hope in 2022, which provides a day camp for children of low-income families. Hope provided these services to children for two weeks in august of 2023. Camp included arts, sports, games, and projects. Hope's summer steam provided a two-week curriculum in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. These programs compliment hopefull kids, which provides nutritious meals to children when school is not in session during the school year.
$238,828 spentof which $118,448 as grants8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,165,236.
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 $1.8M to $4.5M (+147%).
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 41% · 2018 39% · 2019 30% · 2020 7% · 2021 11% · 2022 8% · 2023 13% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Sylvia Hamer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $60k → $453k.
15 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 75% · 2019 48% · 2020 23% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 21% — 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
42% of HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.4M
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 COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,648,966 to it, the largest being UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ($458,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $2,648,966 in grants to HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $458,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 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