Louisiana · Nonprofit
HOPE CONNECTIONS INC
HOPE CONNECTIONS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,292 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($500,549). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $727k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Hope Connections Inc does
Mission
The vision of hope connections is that no individual or family has to experience homelessness in northwest louisiana. To bring that vision into reality, hope's mission is to guide and foster a comprehensive, coordinated homeless services system for those at risk of or experiencing homelessness grounded in rich collaboration and engaging the passion of the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Continuum of care homeless management informatin system (hmis) - provides administrative support, national reporting, and regional training for the homeless management inforamtion system that is used by all homeless programs in northwest louisiana.
$75,737 spent6% of program spendingEmergency solutions grants (esg) - provides additinal funding for hmis and direct services for those experiencing homelessness such as safe haven shelter operations, day shelter operations, and street outreach.
$298,309 spent25% of program spendingProjects for assistance in transition from homelessness (path) - provides street outreach to those experiencing homelessness that live in camps, abandoned building, cars, etc. In an attempt to get them connected to housing and services.
$137,742 spent11% of program spendingContinuum of care planning activities (planning) - provides regional administrative support, project monitoring, and grants management for hud continuum of care program and homeless system in northwest louisiana. 168,837 continuum of care supportive services (cap) provides assessments, document collection, data entry, and housing referrals for those experiencing homelessness in northwest louisiana. 163,341 other program services - provides payment of necessay agenct expenses not specifically attributable to a grant/contract operated by the agency. 125,941 caddo parish commission - provides client supplies for hope's safe haven shelter. 29,615 safe haven shelter - provides a safe shelter for those experiencing homelessness in northwest louisiana. 211,860
$699,594 spent58% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,211,382.
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 $1.5M to $2.7M (+82%).
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 65% · 2018 67% · 2019 67% · 2020 82% · 2021 74% · 2022 90% · 2023 89% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HOPE CONNECTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $110k → $106k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 CONNECTIONS INC’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 CONNECTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 CONNECTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 93% · 2019 55% · 2020 90% · 2021 71% · 2022 92% · 2023 53% — 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 CONNECTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
71% of HOPE CONNECTIONS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $214k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $513k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 CONNECTIONS INC's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HOPE CONNECTIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.2M
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 CONNECTIONS 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE CONNECTIONS 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 CONNECTIONS INC?
- HOPE CONNECTIONS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,292 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($500,549). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE CONNECTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $727,292 in grants to HOPE CONNECTIONS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE CONNECTIONS INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA is the largest funder on record, with $500,549 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE CONNECTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 10 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