Kentucky · Nonprofit
HOPE SCARVES INC
HOPE SCARVES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $588,963 to it, the largest being FOUREVERGREEN FOUNDATION INC ($215,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $642k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $589k
- Net assets
- $975k
What Hope Scarves Inc does
Mission
The mission of hope scarves is to support people facing cancer through scarves, stories, and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hope scarves shares head scarves with women with cancer along with the stories of those who have faced cancer who wore the scarves before them. The organization has sent over 30,000 scarves to every state and multiple foreign countries to people facing over 90 different types of cancer. The hope scarf collection contains thousands of scarves and stories collected.
$288,985 spent$65,194 earned by the program66% of program spendingHope scarves maintains a metastatic breast cancer research fund to broaden how the organization brings hope to people facing cancer. A portion of each dollar donated to hope scarves goes toward translational research.
$150,000 spentof which $150,000 as grants34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $438,985.
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 2020 to 2021, from $703k to $898k (+28%).
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: 2021 9% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HOPE SCARVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Anna Laura Edwards
Executive director
Board chair
Dan Bayer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $19k → $45k.
5 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 SCARVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 SCARVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% 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
50% 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 SCARVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 67% · 2019 74% · 2020 30% · 2021 44% · 2022 55% · 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
29% of HOPE SCARVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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 SCARVES INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k 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.
Against its field
HOPE SCARVES INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE SCARVES INC
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 Kentucky
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
97%
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 SCARVES INC: 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 SCARVES INC?
- HOPE SCARVES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $588,963 to it, the largest being FOUREVERGREEN FOUNDATION INC ($215,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE SCARVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $588,963 in grants to HOPE SCARVES INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE SCARVES INC?
- FOUREVERGREEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE SCARVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 35 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