Rhode Island · Nonprofit
HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES
HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,649 to it, the largest being THE HARBORONE FOUNDATION ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $432k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $379k
What Hope in Jesus Ministries does
Mission
The purpose of Hope in Jesus Ministries is to be a religious group of individuals joined together using evangelical means and methods to benefit individuals impacted by incarceration. Individuals impacted by incarceration extends beyond inmates inside prison walls to include individuals such as ex-inmates and family members of inmates in the community. Ex-inmates often face homelessness, joblessness, and become repeat offenders. This cycle negatively impacts family, friends, and community as a whole. With faith-based resources and support, we aim to meet people in various stages of this cycle and encourage change.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
NEW PROGRAM: FOOD TRUCK: The Hope in Jesus Ministries Mobile Food Establishment (Food Truck) program serves several Rhode Island communities with high concentrations of individuals impacted by incarceration. Many of these individuals are facing food and shelter insecurity. Twice a week, a free-of-charge hot meal and water and a message of Hope is offered to all who come to the truck. This program is operated by independent contractors and community volunteers. PROGRAM 6: COMMUNITY GARDEN: The Gospel Garden program revitalized and utlizes a community space in Providence to create a vegetable garden to serve as a supplemental food resource,a place to gather for resources, and evangelistic outreach. The community garden is established within a demographic largely impacted by incarceration and socieconomic hardship. This program is maintained and operated by independent contractors and community volunteers.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Hope in Jesus Ministries provided chaplaincy services to inmates housed at the Minimum, Medium, and Women's facilities of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. Chaplaincy activities included, but were not limited to, weekly religious services, communion, baptism, on-calldeath notifications, on-call furlough requests, personal counseling, and communicating with inmate's family members and medical personnel. Also included in the chaplaincy is the oversight and placement of religious volunteers in the Medium, Minimum, Maximum, Intake, and Women's facilities.
$87,080 spent28% of program spendingFOOD TRUCK: The Hope in Jesus Ministries Mobile Food Establishment (Food Truck) program serves several Rhode Island communities with high concentrations of individuals impacted by incarceration. The majority of these individuals are facing food and shelter insecurity. Twice a week, a free-of-charge hot meal and water and a message of Hope is offered to all who come to the truck. This program is operated by independent contractors and community volunteers.
$100,511 spent32% of program spendingPATH Program is designed and operated to reach youth inpacted by incarceration. PATH begins with afterschool clubs in elementary schools and will continue at the college level. Currently we provide afterschool club based weekly activites at the elemetary level. This program is conducted by an independent contract and community volunteers.
$64,521 spent21% of program spendingHope in Jesus Ministries offers the Learning to Live Initiative, the Genesis Initiative, and Vocational Education Ministry classes, and mentoring to inmates at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. Through these Initiatives, the ministry provided faith-based life skills courses, vocational, and mentoring opportunities to inmates housed in Minimum, Medium, Maximum, and Women's 1 facilities. This effort is accomplished with the joint effort of trained religious volunteers from the public. In a year, 24 twelve week classes are conducted across Minimum, Medium, Maximum, and Women's 1 facilities. These classes reached approximately 400 inmates. We maintain a sizable waiting list of inmates desiring to be enrolled in our classes. Inmates receive a certificate of completion for each class completed, as well as good time, for completed the coursework and attending sessions.
$33,800 spent11% of program spendingCOMMUNITY GARDEN: The Gospel Garden program revitalized and utlizes a community space in Providence to create a vegetable garden to serve as a no-cost supplemental food resource,a place to gather for resources, and evangelistic outreach. The community garden is established within a demographic largely impacted by incarceration and socieconomic hardship. This program is maintained and operated by independent contractors and community volunteers.
$5,000 spent2% of program spendingRE-ENTRY GRANTS: Upon interview and mentoring, individuals are chosen to be granted re-entry fund to assist with re-establishment into the community and workforce. These funds are dispersed on a sliding-scale to supplement the former inmates efforts at re-building a sustainable life after incarceration. HOLIDAY OUTREACH: In keeping with our evangelical and religious purpose, Hope in Jesus Ministries particpated in community outreach through Easter and Christmas gift giving to children and families impacted by incarceration. Also benevolence funds were granted to those seeking to do well, but have an obvious financial hardship that would hinder their ability.
$21,440 spentof which $21,440 as grants7% of program spendingOnline ministry and training technology -Biblelogics is an evangelical online podcast outreach ministry of Hope in Jesus Ministries. The purpose is to extend the reach of Hope and faith beyond our local community, as well as, to be an ongoing biblical resource for people in contact with prison and outreach ministries we do. HIJM maintains a web domain, Youtube channel, and Rumble Channel for volunteers,mentors, and mentees to find training and community resources.
$570 spent0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,922.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $24k to $299k (+1171%).
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.
82% of HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $60 → $24.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 IN JESUS MINISTRIES’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 IN JESUS MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 IN JESUS MINISTRIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 104 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 104 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
21%
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 IN JESUS MINISTRIES?
- HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,649 to it, the largest being THE HARBORONE FOUNDATION ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,649 in grants to HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES?
- THE HARBORONE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE IN JESUS MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 2 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