Missouri · Nonprofit
HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER
HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,135 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($51,135). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $190M
What Hope Educational & Research Center does
Mission
Our mission is to serve the educational needs of children from infancy through elementary school and through this, instill a solid foundation for the development of competent, responsible, and adaptive citizens who are effective problem-solvers and life-long learners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We serve the needs of our community.the hope educational and research center network of schools serves more than 2000 missouri children every year. Our families have the option of selecting either a montessori-based approach or a traditional approach to education for their children. Both alternatives afford children the benefit of learning in state-of-the-art, educational environment and both alternatives afford children the benefit of learning from fully trained and certified faculty and staff. In addition, hope educational and research center provides oversight and management of its controlled affiliate, hope montessori academy (hma). Hma operates 8 montessori schools in colorado serving aporoximately 2000 children. Hma files a separate form 990. Hope Educational & Research Center is the sole corporate member of hma.our schools are characterized by a highly diversified student body as relates to race, religion, ethnicity and nationality. The breadth of our diversity is unmatched by any other school or educational program in the greater st. Louis area. This is a unique advantage that serves to promote collaboration, understanding and a sense of community within the student body…
$17,960,343 spentof which $161,475 as grants$13,558,645 earned by the program100% of program spendingHope Educational & Research Center offers montessori training and certification for adults seeking to become professional montessori teachers at the infant-toddler (0-3 yrs. Of age) level and at the early childhood (3-6 yrs. Of age) level.the hmei education course provides comprehensive preparation for adults interested in working with children in multi-age groupings, using the montessori method. The education courses are designed to prepare and transform adult students into montessori educators. This is a certificate course, approximately twelve months in duration, with discrete periods of study designed to run consecutively and without interruption. In addition to the periods of study, advanced seminars are required for certification. The academic and practicum hours required for hmei course completion meet and exceed the minimum standards established by the ams.the hmei montessori teacher training program adheres to the highest possible academic and professional standards. Hmei is:- affiliated with the american montessori society (ams), - accredited by the montessori accreditation council for teacher education (macte) and- certified by the state of missouri as a school for…
$118,599 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,960,343.
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 2020 to 2021, from $170M to $196M (+16%).
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.
0% of HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Mark Signorelli
Chairman & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER’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.
Where its funders are
100% of HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hope Montessori Academy · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER: 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 EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER?
- HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $51,135 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($51,135). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $51,135 in grants to HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 1 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