California · Nonprofit
HOPE THE MISSION
HOPE THE MISSION (California) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,184,860 to it, the largest being MARY E BAZAR-ROBIN FOUNDATION ($3,702,538). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $85M
- Funders on record
- 139
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $82M
What Hope the Mission does
Mission
To attract people/resources to assist the needs of every hungry homeless person in the valley.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hope the Mission operates several residential facilities including the genesis house for homeless families, the house of hope for men recovering from addiction, and two transitional bridge housing shelters for men and women while locating permanent housing. Hope of the valley operates three adult shelters: the 87 bed raymer shelter that opened in june 2020, the 100 bed van nuys bridge home shelter and the cold weather shelter in the san fernando valley. Furthermore, hotv operates three family shelters with a total of 130 beds and a tay youth shelter with 30 beds. In 2022, the mission opened the 107-unit trebek center in northridge, and in 2023, it successfully launched the 100-unit, 400-bed woodlands family shelter in woodland hills. Additionally, the mission opened a 52-unit familyshelter on sierra highway (cont. On sch. O) in lancaster. Additionally, the mission operates tiny homes in different areas. Each client receives a warm, safe place to sleep, a hot dinner and breakfast as well as case management to assist them with strategies and solutions to end their homelessness
$55,634,439 spent$231,901 earned by the program74% of program spendingHope of the valley thrifts stores are a vital part of our programming, poviding job training for the men and women in our various programs. Clients learn responbility, cleanliness, inventory, customer service, accounting and sales. The thrift stores also provide much needed clothing and houshold items at greatly reduced prices for the econically challenged in our community. Thrift store donations are also used to provide clothing for our shower programs and household items for individuals and famlies moving into permanent housing.
$6,255,520 spent$6,881,503 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe mission operates the help center in van nuys and the navigation center in north hollywood which offers emergency services to homeless individuals living on the streets such as showers, hot meals, clean clothes and case management.
$2,930,002 spent4% of program spendingOther programs include mental health, inside safe, job labor and food services
$10,278,467 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $75,098,428.
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 2023 to 2024, from $141M to $282M (+100%).
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: 2019 29% · 2020 47% · 2021 54% · 2022 64% · 2023 84% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of HOPE THE MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Ken Craft
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 59 funders, grant income rose $332k → $4.4M.
21 of 139 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 THE MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 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 THE MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
51% 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 THE MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 79% · 2019 36% · 2020 67% · 2021 43% · 2022 59% · 2023 57% — 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
43% of HOPE THE MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
90% of HOPE THE MISSION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 THE MISSION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding HOPE THE MISSION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.8M
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 THE MISSION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE MISSION: 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 THE MISSION?
- HOPE THE MISSION (California) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,184,860 to it, the largest being MARY E BAZAR-ROBIN FOUNDATION ($3,702,538). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE THE MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 139 organizations giving $21,184,860 in grants to HOPE THE MISSION, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE THE MISSION?
- MARY E BAZAR-ROBIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,702,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE THE MISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 139 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