Wisconsin · Nonprofit
HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC
HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,445 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $124k
What Hope for Children Ministries Inc does
Mission
The mission of Hope for Children Ministries is to bring hope to the children of Rwanda through child sponsorship and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ministry support helps to provide funds for administrative costs and wire transfer fees which help to facilitate the ministry that occurs in Rwanda supporting 1000 plus children and families. These services also include the administration of the Child Sponsorship and Mission Trip Programs construction and operation of the Hope for Children International Christian School 510 students in 2025 and supporting structures Hope Shop and the Tailoring Course. Ministry Support also helps 50+ plus street children to attend public school and also provides safe room meals and board at the Hope For Children International Christian School dormitories. Opportunities are also provided for the parents to earn money as well as receive additional support.
$273,297 spentof which $270,440 as grants$239,882 earned by the program57% of program spendingIn 2025 the Child Sponsorship Program brought quality school education to approximately 221 children in three pre-school classes as well as grades one thru twelve. This program helps each child to grow and develop mentally physically and spiritually. School fees transportation school day meals uniforms school supplies and hygiene supplies are provided for each child as well as health insurance for their entire family. Sponsorship also covers the administrative costs of the program including two full-time employees of HFCM-Rwanda who oversees and coordinates the program in Rwanda. In additional 25 full-time teachers are hired for the school school office personnel as well as support staff providing employment for native Rwandans. Associated with this program are opportunities for child sponsors to provide support for the childs family and one-time gifts such as birthday cakes and presents clothing and shoes food for the family art supplies soccer balls chickens goats cows solar lighting mattresses blankets towels and many other items.
$137,871 spentof which $133,880 as grants$142,601 earned by the program29% of program spendingWe train and bring teams from the USA for short-term mission trips to Rwanda to teach and train over 1000 children and their families including 400 plus parents. They bring lesson materials to disciple educate and care for them as we build relationships. Life skills are taught such as learning the importance of good hygiene understanding the dangers of drugs proper nutrition simple farming sexual purity to reduce teen pregnancy parenting best practices early childhood development practices and family planning. Discipleship is designed to help develop and grow the children and their parents in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Lessons are reinforced with visual aids art projects games songs and puppets. In 2025 there were 2 separate mission trips. Teams often bring donated items to bless the children and families who are held in the grip of poverty. These include clothes shoes school supplies soccer balls and nets and other necessary items.
$67,143 spentof which $27,560 as grants$60,898 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $478,311.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $63k to $168k (+168%).
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.
100% of HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Julie Klosiewski
Chief Executive Office Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $100.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES 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 FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 51% · 2023 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
88% of HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES 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 $18k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC?
- HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,445 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $150,445 in grants to HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE FOR CHILDREN MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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