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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
17/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    66% of program spending
  2. Hope 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 grants
    34% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $438,985.

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 ($467k) Expenses 100 ($353k) Net assets 100 ($484k)2018 Revenue 80 ($374k) Expenses 120 ($425k) Net assets 90 ($434k)2019 Revenue 120 ($562k) Expenses 145 ($512k) Net assets 100 ($483k)2020 Revenue 103 ($480k) Expenses 133 ($470k) Net assets 102 ($494k)2021 Revenue 162 ($756k) Expenses 169 ($595k) Net assets 135 ($655k)2022 Revenue 149 ($695k) Expenses 165 ($583k) Net assets 155 ($753k)2023 Revenue 153 ($714k) Expenses 179 ($633k) Net assets 172 ($834k)2024 Revenue 163 ($760k) Expenses 188 ($662k) Net assets 193 ($934k)2025 Revenue 138 ($642k) Expenses 171 ($605k) Net assets 201 ($975k)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (171)Net assets (201)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 2020 to 2021, from $703k to $898k (+28%).

$492k
$602k
$714k
$703k
$898k
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
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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 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).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$114k
’17
−$51k
’18
$50k
’19
$10k
’20
$161k
’21
$112k
’22
$81k
’23
$98k
’24
$37k
’25
4.1
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

Anna Laura Edwards

Executive director

Board chair

Dan Bayer

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161613141113141315
Joined·+3+3+3+4+2+2+4+4
No longer listed·36270152
03Who funds it

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.

37%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

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.

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 SCARVES INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 13 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CT
CO
KY
MD
NC
GA
TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOPE SCARVES INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 16%Fundraising 11%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

KY

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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