Nebraska · Nonprofit
HOPE VENTURE
HOPE VENTURE (Nebraska) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,712,729 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($966,627). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Hope Venture does
Mission
The Hope Venture exists to bring hope and dignity to the most disadvantaged people through education and health projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Students: the Hope Venture finished 2025 by supporting 606 total students with their education, in sub-saharan africa and south asia. This project primarily helps high school students in kenya, where the dropout rate by high school has been extremely high. In addition to that, this project also sponsors a few students in uganda, as well as helps scholarship students in kenya, rwanda, and south asia.
$453,001 spentof which $453,001 as grants42% of program spendingHealth centers: in 2025, the Hope Venture was able to help over 12,000 people through our health centers in uganda and india. From clinics in large cities, to a leprosy center, to outreaches to surrounding rural villages, we were able to save lives and bring hope and dignity to many.
$153,237 spentof which $153,237 as grants14% of program spendingEducation supplies: in 2025 the Hope Venture helped over 6,000 children have the supplies they needed for a year of schooling through our backpack project in south asia. These children come from incredibly poor backgrounds where many of the families have never received such a gift and where there is little money leftover for school supplies. In addition, our supplies included uniforms for high school students in uganda.
$128,026 spentof which $128,026 as grants12% of program spendingForm 990, part iii, line 4d: breakdown of other program services: education skills: $21,820; education centers: $42,131; health supplies: $18,543; food: $87,349; water: $17,150; misc aid $7,068; field coord: $14,795; and misc program expenses as outlined in form 990 part ix, column b: $147,327.
$356,183 spentof which $208,856 as grants33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,090,447.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $686k to $1.9M (+176%).
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.
101% of HOPE VENTURE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Cynthia Petersen
Executive director
Board chair
Amy Auch Moedy
Board, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $172k → $432k.
11 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 VENTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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 VENTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 VENTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 42% · 2019 48% · 2020 54% · 2021 59% · 2022 98% · 2023 87% — 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
31% of HOPE VENTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
85% of HOPE VENTURE'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 $261k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 VENTURE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE VENTURE
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 VENTURE: 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 VENTURE?
- HOPE VENTURE (Nebraska) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,712,729 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($966,627). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE VENTURE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,712,729 in grants to HOPE VENTURE, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE VENTURE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $966,627 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE VENTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 25 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