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HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC

HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $963,175 to it, the largest being CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI ($678,373). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$459k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$963k
Net assets
$720k
8/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 96%
01What it does

What Hope Haven of Hancock County Inc does

Mission

To intervene, advocate for and support abused, neglected, foster and at-risk children and to provide prevention programs to the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Forensic interviews - structured conversations in a safe environment between children that may have been abused or neglected and a trained professional interviewer in coordination with law enforcement and child protective services personnel. A single interview model is used so that the children do not have to be questioned repeatedly. The goal of the interviews is to aid in ensuring the safety of the individual child as well as other children in the community.

    $106,059 spent
    45% of program spending
  2. Family advocate - family advocates counsel children and families before and after forensic interviews to make sure they understand the process involved with the investigation and legal process. The family advocate also provides support, education and resources to the child and family to help overcome and cope with the trauma of abuse.

    $70,706 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. Parenting classes - video based education series designed for parents and families to learn how to survive and thrive in a fast-changing society and to help support families in every stage of the child's development.

    $35,353 spent
    15% of program spending
  4. Stewards of children - administered by darkness to light, which is a national program whose mission it is to raise awareness of the prevalence and consequences of child sexual abuse by educating adults. The organization offers free training to community members to serve as advocates for children.annual events - hope haven provides various annual events to benefit undeserved children in the community, such as a back-to-school drive for school supplies and a teen angel program to ensure teens receive gifts at christmas.

    $23,569 spent
    10% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $235,687.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($142k) Expenses 100 ($288k) Net assets 100 ($762k)2018 Revenue 253 ($361k) Expenses 123 ($355k) Net assets 101 ($769k)2020 Revenue 286 ($407k) Expenses 139 ($400k) Net assets 99 ($753k)2021 Revenue 237 ($338k) Expenses 141 ($406k) Net assets 90 ($688k)2022 Revenue 206 ($293k) Expenses 136 ($392k) Net assets 73 ($555k)2023 Revenue 245 ($349k) Expenses 147 ($424k) Net assets 70 ($535k)2024 Revenue 427 ($608k) Expenses 159 ($459k) Net assets 93 ($706k)2025 Revenue 322 ($459k) Expenses 154 ($444k) Net assets 94 ($720k)
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Revenue (322)Expenses (154)Net assets (94)Peer revenue range

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 $585k to $734k (+25%).

$766k
$774k
$774k
$707k
$600k
$585k
$734k
$732k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$145k
’17
$6k
’18
$7k
’20
−$68k
’21
−$99k
’22
−$75k
’23
$150k
’24
$15k
’25
3.5
months of
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.

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Listed1512119911119
Joined·+4·+4+1+7+4+3
No longer listed·7·61545
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $23k → $35k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY 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 HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC.

70%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 76% · 2019 60% · 2020 90% · 2021 88% · 2022 89% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.

“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

80% of HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

88% of HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.

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MS
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC has grown faster than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 47%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC?
HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $963,175 to it, the largest being CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI ($678,373). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $963,175 in grants to HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC?
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $678,373 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE HAVEN OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 9 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