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HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH

HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,646,942 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($246,550). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
45
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$7.7M
28/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Hope Ignites Pittsburgh does

Mission

To help academically-capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential and become men and women by providing value-centered, family-like homes, opportunities and education through college.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Our residential program functions as a loving and nurturing family atmosphere, a dynamic environment with a sense of belonging, central to healthy adolescent development. We not only prepare our scholars for all aspects and challenges of the college experience, but continue to provide academic, social, emotional and financial support through college graduation and into their first career.

    $881,041 spent
    88% of program spending
  2. Academy pathway - provides year round, out-of-school support, mentoring, and college-prepatory educational experiences for scholars who can live at home but require additional resources.

    $119,440 spent
    12% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,000,481.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($8.9M)2022 Revenue 44 ($941k) Expenses 89 ($1.0M) Net assets 84 ($7.5M)2023 Revenue 53 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 91 ($8.0M)2024 Revenue 38 ($803k) Expenses 114 ($1.3M) Net assets 91 ($8.1M)2025 Revenue 57 ($1.2M) Expenses 116 ($1.3M) Net assets 87 ($7.7M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (57)Expenses (116)Net assets (87)

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 $10M to $8.9M (−14%).

$10M
$8.9M
$9.4M
$9.4M
$9.0M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’21
−$64k
’22
−$17k
’23
−$487k
’24
−$102k
’25
1.4
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.

Chief executive

Ali Brush

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed2424242318
Joined·+0+3+10+2
No longer listed·03117
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $130k → $193k.

7 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 IGNITES PITTSBURGH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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 IGNITES PITTSBURGH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

53% 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 IGNITES PITTSBURGH.

15%
largest funder
41%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 35% · 2019 21% · 2020 23% · 2021 41% · 2022 15% · 2023 13% — 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

38% of HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
MA
PA
CT
DE
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $650k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 6%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

61%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Boys Hope Girls Hope · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH?
HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,646,942 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($246,550). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $1,646,942 in grants to HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $246,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 45 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