North Carolina · Nonprofit
HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER
HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER (North Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,182,167 to it, the largest being Lowes Foundation ($625,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $757k
What Hope Renovations Spencer does
Mission
Hope renovations empowers women and gender-expansive individuals into careers in construction and helps older adults age in place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Women's trades training program - during fye 06/30/2025,we trained 74 women and nonbinary folks. 70% of those went into jobs or continuing education in the trades.
$111,136 spent$51,911 earned by the program10% of program spendingAging in place construction program - during fye 06/30/2024, the construction program completed 40 jobs ranging in size from small grab bar installations and safety modifications to large bathroom renovations. 78% of households served were 55+ and/or disabled.
$1,057,740 spent$217,805 earned by the program90% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,168,876.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $244k to $709k (+190%).
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 29% · 2021 21% · 2022 6% · 2023 15% · 2024 42% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Nora E Spencer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $15k → $296k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 RENOVATIONS SPENCER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 RENOVATIONS SPENCER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
80% 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 RENOVATIONS SPENCER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 36% · 2022 18% · 2023 19% — 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
50% of HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
80% of HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $629k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 RENOVATIONS SPENCER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $714k on record.
- Department of Labor$714k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 RENOVATIONS SPENCER: 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 RENOVATIONS SPENCER?
- HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER (North Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,182,167 to it, the largest being Lowes Foundation ($625,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,182,167 in grants to HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER?
- Lowes Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 32 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