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HOPE NETWORK INC

HOPE NETWORK INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,580 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($80,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$63k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$143k
Net assets
$74k
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Hope Network Inc does

Mission

Hope network's mission is to provide women parenting alone in milwaukee and the surrounding area with resources to build self-reliance and strong families. Hope network is launching the hope program to mentor women parenting alone for three years, providing supplies and support.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Time of hope: this is an annual fundraiser to raise unrestricted funds to cover costs of administration as well as the costs of scholarships, diapers, cribs, layettes, and other needs of our members. These funds are also used for mother's day and other holiday events for our members.

    $14,147 spent
    81% of program spending
  2. Sharing hope: provides members physical and digital newsletters, updates, offers, promotions, and holiday gift cards.

    $3,391 spent
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,538.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($154k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets 100 ($61k)2018 Revenue 76 ($118k) Expenses 73 ($105k) Net assets 121 ($74k)2019 Revenue 91 ($141k) Expenses 74 ($106k) Net assets 178 ($109k)2020 Revenue 86 ($133k) Expenses 66 ($94k) Net assets 242 ($148k)2021 Revenue 101 ($155k) Expenses 101 ($145k) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 92 ($142k) Expenses 92 ($132k) Net assets 268 ($163k)2023 Revenue 98 ($151k) Expenses 118 ($168k) Net assets 247 ($150k)2024 Revenue 58 ($89k) Expenses 91 ($130k) Net assets 188 ($114k)2025 Revenue 41 ($63k) Expenses 74 ($106k) Net assets 121 ($74k)
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Revenue (41)Expenses (74)Net assets (121)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $148k to $0 (−100%).

$62k
$74k
$109k
$148k
$0
$164k
$150k
$114k
$74k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of HOPE NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,020 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$13k
’18
$34k
’19
$39k
’20
$10k
’21
$11k
’22
−$17k
’23
−$40k
’24
−$43k
’25
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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.

Chief executive

Ana Saavedra

Executive director/treasurer

Board chair

Rita Saavedra

Board president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $25k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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 NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 NETWORK INC.

56%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 60% · 2019 86% · 2020 51% · 2021 48% · 2022 97% · 2023 73% — 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

50% of HOPE NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

58% of HOPE NETWORK 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 $61k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOPE NETWORK INC's revenue fell 59% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−69% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPE NETWORK INC?
HOPE NETWORK INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,580 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($80,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOPE NETWORK INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $142,580 in grants to HOPE NETWORK INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE NETWORK INC?
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE NETWORK INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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