Illinois · Nonprofit
HOPE LIFE CENTER
HOPE LIFE CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,829 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($35,229). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HOPE LIFE CENTER has grown faster than half of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Save the Storksshared fundersportfolio match
- Mission Pre-Born Incshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of Whiteside Countyshared funderslocal
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.
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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of HOPE LIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $28k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 LIFE CENTER’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 LIFE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 LIFE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 99% · 2020 91% · 2021 77% · 2022 88% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of HOPE LIFE CENTER'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 $39k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Save the Storksshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mission Pre-Born Incshared fundersportfolio matchIN · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Whiteside Countyshared funderslocalIL · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · funds 18 organizations near you
- Care Netportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vitamin Bridgeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 4 USportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Weingartz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Image Clear Ultrasound Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vitamin Angel Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Columbian Charities of Mo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abundant Life WAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like HOPE LIFE CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LIFE CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HOPE LIFE CENTER?
- HOPE LIFE CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,829 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($35,229). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE LIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $80,829 in grants to HOPE LIFE CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE LIFE CENTER?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,229 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE LIFE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing