Indiana · Nonprofit
HOPE MINISTRIES INC
HOPE MINISTRIES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,013 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($110,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $177k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Hope Ministries Inc does
Mission
Hope desires to spread the message of the Christian gospel, both domestically and internationally, through witnessing the gospel, service to others and care to those less fortunate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Missionary activity in Nicaragua reaching in particular women and children in the poor sections of the largest cities in the country. Focus is preaching the gospel, small group leadership, but to also provide relational care for those people served by the missionary team.
$93,438 spent$108,261 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe primary focus is funding and supporting an orphanage and Christian school in Kenya, Africa.
$94,472 spent$95,492 earned by the program45% of program spendingMissionary camp work
$1,293 spent1% of program spendingMissionary activity conducted at a Christian camp in Wisconsin.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOutreach to Japan through running programs for autistic children.
$22,272 spent$21,200 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,475.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $186k to $146k (−22%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $31k → $14k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 MINISTRIES INC’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 MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 58% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of HOPE MINISTRIES INC'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 $57k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MINISTRIES INC
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 MINISTRIES INC: 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 MINISTRIES INC?
- HOPE MINISTRIES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,013 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($110,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $177,013 in grants to HOPE MINISTRIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE MINISTRIES INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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