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HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION

HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,515,079 to it, the largest being JHC Foundation ($2,625,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
53
Grants received
$5.5M
Net assets
$3.0M
32/53 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Hope Partnership for Education does

Mission

Hope Partnership for Education's mission is empowerment through education. Hpe serves families in eastern north philadelphia through its education center, which houses an independent middle school, grades 5 - 8, an after- school enrichment program, a graduate support program and an adult education program.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Hope Partnership for Education's mission is empowerment through education. Hpe serves families in eastern north philadelphia through its education center, which houses an independent middle school, grades 5 - 8, an after- school enrichment program, a graduate support program and an adult education program.

    $2,474,336 spentof which $787,500 as grants$787,500 earned by the program
    96% of program spending

  2. The hope partnership graduate support program is committed to providing a holistic support system for all graduates. By fostering genuine, long- lasting relationships with alumni and their families, our program is designed to facilitate a smooth and successful transition into high school and college, and develop responsible, and civically engaged members of the community.

    $92,533 spentof which $92,533 as grants
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,566,869.

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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2018 Revenue 96 ($1.5M) Expenses 106 ($1.5M) Net assets 98 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 91 ($1.4M) Expenses 116 ($1.7M) Net assets 89 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 123 ($1.9M) Expenses 120 ($1.7M) Net assets 96 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 128 ($2.0M) Expenses 124 ($1.8M) Net assets 103 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 207 ($3.2M) Expenses 183 ($2.6M) Net assets 125 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 189 ($3.0M) Expenses 196 ($2.8M) Net assets 129 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 188 ($2.9M) Expenses 216 ($3.1M) Net assets 122 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 194 ($3.0M) Expenses 230 ($3.3M) Net assets 110 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (194)Expenses (230)Net assets (110)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 2019 to 2020, from $3.2M to $3.8M (+17%).

$3.6M
$3.5M
$3.2M
$3.8M
$4.0M
$4.4M
$4.6M
$4.4M
$4.0M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$111k
’17
−$40k
’18
−$255k
’19
$181k
’20
$201k
’21
$589k
’22
$106k
’23
−$199k
’24
−$307k
’25
3.7
months of
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

Virgil Sheppard

President / CEO

Board chair

Mary Lou Zwwan

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161815172220212021
Joined·+6+4+6+6+5+1+4+2
No longer listed·47417051
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $290k → $1.1M.

Funder
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'18
'19
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'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
15
17
15
22
24
18
18
18
13

7 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION.

48%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 37% · 2019 53% · 2020 48% · 2021 57% · 2022 60% · 2023 47% — 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

44% of HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 11 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
DE
TX
FL

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION has grown faster than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION

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 Pennsylvania

Esperanza Academy Charter School82%Logan Hope82%Youth Empowerment Services81%Horizons Greater Philadelphia Inc81%Philadelphia Electrical & Technology Cha81%The Philadelphia Education Fund81%Passport Academy Charter School80%The Pec Foundation80%

Nationally

Academy of Hope Adult Public Charter School83%Hope Academy Inc83%Hope Charter School Inc83%Esperanza Academy Charter School82%Higher Achievement Program Inc82%Logan Hope82%St Hope Academy82%Hopes Community Action Partnership82%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 9%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION?
HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,515,079 to it, the largest being JHC Foundation ($2,625,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION have?
IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $5,515,079 in grants to HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION?
JHC Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 53 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