Texas · Nonprofit
HOPE HITS HARDER
HOPE HITS HARDER (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,188 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ($140,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $618k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $559k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Hope Hits Harder does
Mission
Raise funds for existing organizations that provide support, care and summer camp experiences to childhood cancer patients and their families
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Contributions to childhood cancer-related charities and to cancer families
$627,109 spentof which $607,275 as grants93% of program spendingH.o.p.e. Bag (helping others persevere everyday). This large insulated bag is given to every newly admitted child with cancer at the children's hospital of san antonio. This bag contains the essentials a family might need when they find themselves suddenly in a crisis mode. In addition to the items in each bag, the families have access to parking passes and food vouchers for the cafeteria. Our goal is to try to take a little of the immediate burden off of the shoulders of these families that have just found out that their child has cancer. Many of these families have little or no insurance, some are from out of town, and some must give up their jobs to stay at the hospital with their child. We want to give them a little hope that people care, and that help is available.
$14,953 spent2% of program spendingThe jana banana pajama program was implemented by teed off at cancer in 2019. This program services all three pediatric oncology hospitals in san antonio, texas. Each hospital has a pajama closet that is stocked with a variety of pajamas for the patients to choose from and take home with them. The purpose of the jana banana pajama program is to give children a little comfort and a feeling of "home" during their long hospital stays.
$31,161 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $673,223.
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 2023 to 2024, from $920k to $1.3M (+44%).
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.
12% of HOPE HITS HARDER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $13k → $141k.
9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 HITS HARDER’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 HITS HARDER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 HITS HARDER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 37% · 2019 41% · 2020 44% · 2021 28% · 2022 54% · 2023 71% — 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
50% of HOPE HITS HARDER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
76% of HOPE HITS HARDER'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 $135k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 HITS HARDER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HOPE HITS HARDER
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE HITS HARDER: 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 HITS HARDER?
- HOPE HITS HARDER (Texas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,188 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ($140,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE HITS HARDER have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $559,188 in grants to HOPE HITS HARDER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE HITS HARDER?
- SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE HITS HARDER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 17 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