Missouri · Nonprofit
HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN
HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN (Missouri) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,681 to it, the largest being EDWARD F SWINNEY TRUST ($90,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $845k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $386k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Hope Network of Raytown does
Mission
To offer hope to the hungry and hurting through delivering exemplary care, affirming value, and meeting basic needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year ending september 30, 2024, hope network provided to 2,350 families food, clothing, and household goods for those at or below the 150% federal poverty guidelines. In addition, hope network provided direct assistance to 203 families within the community to meet their needs for rent, utility, and vehicle repair. The gifts of hope provides christmas gifts for children in low-income families who otherwise may not be able to receive them. There were 135 individual served. Day care was provided for these events
$822,016 spentof which $694,079 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $822,016.
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.
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 $79k to $128k (+63%).
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.
92% of HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% 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
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 broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $9k → $71k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 OF RAYTOWN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 26 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 OF RAYTOWN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
27% 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 OF RAYTOWN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 42% · 2019 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 25% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NETWORK OF RAYTOWN has grown faster than half of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN
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 Missouri
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
99%
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 NETWORK OF RAYTOWN: 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 NETWORK OF RAYTOWN?
- HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN (Missouri) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,681 to it, the largest being EDWARD F SWINNEY TRUST ($90,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $385,681 in grants to HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN?
- EDWARD F SWINNEY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 26 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