Missouri · Nonprofit
HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS
HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,222,392 to it, the largest being BERGES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($475,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Hope Ignites St Louis does
Mission
The primary goal of hope ignites st. Louis is that our scholars reach their full potential and become healthy, productive life-long learners who adapt to an ever-changing world, thrive in the face of obstacles, and generate a positive ripple effect in their families, work places, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hope ignites st. Louis helps economically disadvantaged and at-risk children in st.louis achieve prosperity by increasing their high school and college graduation rates. Services provided include, but are not limited to; food, clothing, shelter, transportation, health care, therapeutic counseling, educational access, vocational training and parental engagement.
$1,748,505 spentof which $196,693 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,748,505.
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.
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 $7.7M to $7.0M (−10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Michelle Abel
Executive director
Board chair
Andrea Barry
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $312k → $627k.
17 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 ST LOUIS 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
64% 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 ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 35% · 2019 45% · 2020 53% · 2021 50% · 2022 39% · 2023 26% — 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
41% of HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
82% of HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS: 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 IGNITES ST LOUIS?
- HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,222,392 to it, the largest being BERGES FAMILY FOUNDATION ($475,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $3,222,392 in grants to HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS?
- BERGES FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 58 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