Illinois · Nonprofit
Hope Street Group
Hope Street Group (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,572,847 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,099,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Hope Street Group does
Mission
The primary purpose of the Hope Street Group is to operate as an educational and charitable organization dedicated to improving the career exploration and navigation experience for every middle and high school student. This is achieved through the research, development, and deployment of technological tools and ai-powered platforms designed to assist students in career navigation, skills acquisition, and future readiness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2003, on south hope street in los angeles, ca, a group of young entrepreneurs, business, and technology professionals concerned with individual and national economic opportunity in the u.s. Formed Hope Street Group. This group believed that by infusing diverse understanding and expertise into economic challenges, we could dramatically improve access to opportunity. Since our founding, we have worked diligently to apply this model and incorporate the application of innovation and technology to the education sector. Our impact our work has impacted education policy and teacher practice.
$1,586,449 spent$4,000 earned by the program87% of program spendingThrough Hope Street Groups education initiatives , we offer an opportunity for policymakers and educators to work together to significantly improve the way public education operates at the national, state, and local levels. We have seen that by creating structured programs and leveraging the model of the teacher fellow programs through cross-learning and communications, we can streamline challenges and scale solutions between various education stakeholders. In addition, our network provides access to individuals who offer unique, new, and on-the-ground perspectives that could potentially become viable solutions to public policy problems. Hope Street Group offers a safe place to test those solutions and to pilot new ideas.
$241,152 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,827,601.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.8M to $1.4M (−49%).
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.
98% of Hope Street Group’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
David Ma
President CEO
Board chair
Allen Blue
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2.3M → $1.5M.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Street Group’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 Street Group leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 Street Group.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 79% · 2019 67% · 2020 54% · 2021 59% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — 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
42% of Hope Street Group's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 Street Group draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M 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 Street Group holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Hope Street Group
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Street Group: 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 Street Group?
- Hope Street Group (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,572,847 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,099,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hope Street Group have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $16,572,847 in grants to Hope Street Group, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hope Street Group?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,099,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hope Street Group find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 16 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