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HOPEAUSTIN

HOPEAUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,061 to it, the largest being THE 3 ROOTS FOUNDATION ($196,352). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$404k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$887k
Net assets
$57k
10/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Hopeaustin does

Mission

HopeAustin is a volunteer based, local 501(c)(3) charitable organization aimed at securing basic life sustaining needs to the youngest members of our community. With the assistance of community partnerships, HopeAustin works to eliminate childhood hunger one meal and one child at a time. HopeAustin provides weekend meals to local students who experience food insecurity while away from their free/reduced meal programs offered by local school districts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Currently, HopeAustin provides weekend meal kits containing 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners, 2 snacks as well as vital shelf stable protein drinks to ensure proper nutrition and calories. In addition, we operate food pantries at several middle/high schools. Food pantries provide for autonomy of choice which is something many of our students do not experience on a regular basis. Our meal programs ensure that local students are food secure, increasing the opportunity to meet physical and cognitive milestones, while also removing the number one barrier to a quality education... hunger. Further, our programs are proving to increase attendance among the student population we serve.

    $418,483 spent$403,694 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $418,483.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($73k) Expenses 100 ($47k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2019 Revenue 133 ($96k) Expenses 169 ($79k) Net assets 136 ($68k)2020 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 556 ($259k) Net assets 375 ($187k)2021 Revenue 456 ($331k) Expenses 676 ($315k) Net assets 407 ($203k)2022 Revenue 252 ($183k) Expenses 818 ($381k) Net assets 108 ($54k)2023 Revenue 600 ($435k) Expenses 896 ($418k) Net assets 144 ($72k)2024 Revenue 557 ($404k) Expenses 898 ($418k) Net assets 114 ($57k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (557)Expenses (898)Net assets (114)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 2021 to 2022, from $203k to $54k (−73%).

$50k
$68k
$187k
$203k
$54k
$72k
$57k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of HOPEAUSTIN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’18
$18k
’19
−$259k
’20
$16k
’21
−$199k
’22
$18k
’23
−$15k
’24
1.6
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

Monica D von Waaden

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed35554
Joined·+2+0+1+0
No longer listed·0011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $20k → $171k.

9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 HOPEAUSTIN’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

HOPEAUSTIN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

40% 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 HOPEAUSTIN.

22%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 58% · 2019 48% · 2020 36% · 2021 58% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% — 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

36% of HOPEAUSTIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

68% of HOPEAUSTIN's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
CO
KY
DE
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

HOPEAUSTIN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,975 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding HOPEAUSTIN receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100 on record.

State$100
Top programs
  • TRUST FUND$100

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 HOPEAUSTIN

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPEAUSTIN: 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 HOPEAUSTIN?
HOPEAUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,061 to it, the largest being THE 3 ROOTS FOUNDATION ($196,352). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOPEAUSTIN have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $887,061 in grants to HOPEAUSTIN, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPEAUSTIN?
THE 3 ROOTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $196,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPEAUSTIN 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 23 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