Georgia · Nonprofit
Hope Now Ministries
Hope Now Ministries (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,122 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $123k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Hope Now Ministries does
Mission
Spread the hope of Jesus in Ukraine
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
War effort - due to the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia our ministry expanded to include support for those in our community who either chose or were drafted to serve in the Ukrainian armed forces. This included many of our orphan graduates, volunteers and ministry partners. At the onset of the war, our immediate concern was to evacuate the children at the orphanage, their care givers, guardians, orphan graduates and volunteers. The majority of these evacuees were safely settled to shelter in neighboring countries such as Romania, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic and the USA. We evacuated over 300 people during 2022.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
War effort - due to the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia our ministry expanded to include support for those in our community who either chose or were drafted to serve in the Ukrainian armed forces. This included many of our orphan graduates, volunteers and ministry partners. At the onset of the war, our immediate concern was to evacuate the children at the orphanage, their care givers, guardians, orphan graduates and volunteers. The majority of these evacuees were safely settled to shelter in neighboring countries such as Romania, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic and the USA. We evacuated over 300 people during 2022.
$278,751 spentof which $122,108 as grants79% of program spendingOrphan sponsorships: The orphan sponsorships program serves 187 orphans at Shpola Orphanage in Ukraine. Sponsors in the United States are paired with orphans in Shpola to provide care and support. Monthly sponsorships provide necessities including clothing and urgent medical care, along with mentorships and educational and lifeskill programs at the orphanage.
$47,530 spentof which $42,726 as grants14% of program spendingHope Now supports multiple organizations in Ukraine including youth camps, local ministries for widows and food services for the poor. The primary focus is on summer camps held at our facility called Kompas Park located in the village of Khrychatyk near Cherkassy. Since Kompas Parks inception in 2007 approximately 400 children, 100 widows and 150 disabled people are hosted annually. However during 2022 due to the war in Ukraine we were unable to host full scale camps at Kompas Park due to limited bomb shelter facilities. Camps were limited to approximately 50% attendees compared to a typical year.
$14,206 spentof which $10,240 as grants4% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: War effort - due to the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia our ministry expanded to include support for those in our community who either chose or were drafted to serve in the Ukrainian armed forces. This included many of our orphan graduates, volunteers and ministry partners. At the onset of the war, our immediate concern was to evacuate the children at the orphanage, their care givers, guardians, orphan graduates and volunteers. The majority of these evacuees were safely settled to shelter in neighboring countries such as Romania, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic and the USA. We evacuated over 300 people during 2022.
$11,204 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $351,691.
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.
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 $199k to $31k (−84%).
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.
100% of Hope Now Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Darrell Knight
Chairman
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $850 → $15k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 Now Ministries’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 Now Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Now Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 99% · 2022 38% · 2023 51% — 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
40% of Hope Now Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
93% of Hope Now Ministries'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Now Ministries has grown faster than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Hope Now Ministries
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 Now Ministries: 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 Now Ministries?
- Hope Now Ministries (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,122 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Hope Now Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $123,122 in grants to Hope Now Ministries, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hope Now Ministries?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hope Now Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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