Colorado · Nonprofit
HOPE IN OUR CITY
HOPE IN OUR CITY (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,159 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($96,909). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $845k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $401k
- Net assets
- $184k
What Hope in Our City does
Mission
Community outreach programs in denver colorado with a focus on reaching under-privileged communities through education and empowerment including reign christian academy.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Community outreach programs in Denver Colorado with a special focus on reaching under-privileged communities through education and empowerment initiatives. These efforts aim to break cycles of poverty provide access to quality learning opportunities and foster personal and spiritual growth. One example is the support of Reign Christian Academy which serves as a cornerstone in offering affordable faith-based education mentorship and leadership development for children and families who might otherwise lack access to such resources. Through partnerships volunteer engagement and holistic programming these outreach programs seek to uplift individuals strengthen families and build healthier more resilient neighborhoods.
$817,093 spent$297,155 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $817,093.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $463k to $809k (+75%).
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% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of HOPE IN OUR CITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Stephen Walkup
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $82k.
9 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 OUR CITY’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 OUR CITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
60% 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 IN OUR CITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 30% · 2019 75% · 2020 59% · 2021 74% · 2022 57% · 2023 88% — 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
36% of HOPE IN OUR CITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
56% of HOPE IN OUR CITY'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 $175k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 IN OUR CITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 520 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 520 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like HOPE IN OUR CITY
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE IN OUR CITY: 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 IN OUR CITY?
- HOPE IN OUR CITY (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,159 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($96,909). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE IN OUR CITY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $401,159 in grants to HOPE IN OUR CITY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE IN OUR CITY?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $96,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE IN OUR CITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2021–2026), and the filings of 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing