Texas · Nonprofit
HOPE STORY INC
HOPE STORY INC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,565 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($34,385). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $642k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $501k
What Hope Story Inc does
Mission
Hope story provided comprehensive support to new parents of children with down syndrome and expanded outreach to medical professionals nationwide. Key accomplishments included: distributing personalized resource packets to new hope advocates across the country, with a goal of connecting families with local support services for parents and healthcare providers. Attending major awareness events, such as buddy walks, to educate attendees on hope storys mission and connect families with vital resources. Producing and distributing a new parent welcome booklet in english and spanish with a goal of offering new families to offer immediate guidance and encouragement. Enhancing medical professional engagement through attendance at national conferences, hosting an educational dinner for providers, and launching a targeted outreach campaign to equip healthcare teams with down syndrome resources and advocacy tools. Delivering nationwide peer-to-peer mentoring to new parents, fostering emotional support and practical advice from experienced families. Hosting a back-to-school event to encourage children with down syndrome and their families with educational tools and community connections. To…
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Distrubted personalized information to new hope advocates across the country to provide resources for new parents of children with down syndrome and medical professionals in their area. Attended various events (buddy walks, etc.) to create awareness of hope story to parents of children with down syndrome and to share the mission of hope story.produced and distributed a new parent booklet in two languages. Expanded outreach to medical professionals including attending medical conferences and hosting educational medical professional dinners. Offered nationwide peer-to-peer support to new parents of children with down syndrome. Hosted two back to school events for parents of children with down syndrome. Hired a part time operation coordinator. Grew our team hope story charity funraising running program by approximately 2,000% from 2022.
$189,409 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $189,409.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $307k to $544k (+77%).
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 STORY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $500 → $32k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 STORY INC’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 STORY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 STORY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 89% · 2021 85% · 2022 92% · 2023 72% — 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 STORY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
92% of HOPE STORY INC'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 STORY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HOPE STORY 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOPE STORY INC?
- HOPE STORY INC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,565 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($34,385). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE STORY INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $91,565 in grants to HOPE STORY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE STORY INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $34,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE STORY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 14 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