Kentucky · Nonprofit
HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC
HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,948 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($9,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services 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.
- Northern Kentucky Area Development Districtlocal
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Incportfolio match
- United Way of Northeast Kentuckyportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $955 → $1k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY 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 OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 32% · 2021 37% · 2022 55% · 2023 85% — 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
HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Northern Kentucky Area Development DistrictlocalKY · funds 18 organizations near you
- Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northeast Kentuckyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Athens Federal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Athens Thrift Store Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tri-State Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmers & Hunters Feeding the Hungry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Akron-Canton Regional Foodbankportfolio 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 MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY 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.
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 MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC?
- HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,948 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($9,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $21,948 in grants to HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC?
- Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE MINISTRIES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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