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HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC

HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,330 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($99,765). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$608k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$253k
Net assets
$1.2M
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Hopebound Ministries Inc does

Mission

Hopebound provides encouragement, support, and direction to early-stage ministries as they create innovative solutions to address the needs of the communities in which they serve and guides their growth into sponsored ministries instilled with the felician core values for ministry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Mooncrest is a low income, primarily rental community with 395 units, located in an isolated part of moon township with no public transportation. The felician sisters launched mooncrest neighborhood programs (mnp) in 2002 by helping 6 children with homework in an after-school program. Mnp grew to a full-service community center providing free critical needs services for adults and families in a community of 1000+ residents. Mnp offers a free after school program 5 days per week for 90 children and 10 weeks of free 5 day per week summer camp with meals and snacks for children, serving 100+ children annually. With the support of moon township and by establishing strong partnerships, a welcoming mooncrest community center provides food access programs, healthcare access and adult education, along with free quality programs for children year-round.

    $472,582 spent
    52% of program spending
  2. Felician community services is located on the campus of villa maria college in cheektowaga, ny at the border of buffalo. The sister mary josette food pantry serves college students and residents of two zip codes within a 6-mile radius. Approximately 285 households and 833 individuals are seen monthly, nearly 10,000 annually. Products distributed include: non-perishable and perishable foods, as well as toiletries and hygiene supplies. Felician community services also offers a free clothing closet, a pet pantry, multiple birthday programs, a holiday celebration program, and connections to community resources for anyone living in need in western new york. Villa maria youth program is now also under the felician community services umbrella, operating in buffalo, ny. Villa maria youth program provides homework support and social programing to the children of the buffalo/cheektowaga communities. The program focuses on children from grades 2nd through 4th from union east elementary who are in need of academic assistance in math and reading. Services include completion of daily homework, math review and skill building, reading and vocabulary skills, creative story-telling, read theory…

    $310,491 spent$4,805 earned by the program
    34% of program spending
  3. Felician wellness program, located in centralia and mt. Vernon, illinois, provided programs designed to improve the health and wellness of adults and children in an affordable and comfortable environment within the proximate community. The wellness program was split between two sub-categories. The lean program addressed the health and wellness needs of the students attending the five area elementary schools. The next program addressed the health and wellneess needs of the adults in the community. This program ended in december, 2024.

    $124,365 spent$3,707 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $907,438.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($394k) Expenses 100 ($687k) Net assets 100 ($664k)2022 Revenue 95 ($373k) Expenses 135 ($925k) Net assets 142 ($946k)2023 Revenue 90 ($356k) Expenses 165 ($1.1M) Net assets 155 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 147 ($578k) Expenses 201 ($1.4M) Net assets 180 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 154 ($608k) Expenses 224 ($1.5M) Net assets 183 ($1.2M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (154)Expenses (224)Net assets (183)

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 $764k to $1.1M (+41%).

$764k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.4M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$293k
’21
−$553k
’22
−$779k
’23
−$799k
’24
−$927k
’25
8.7
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.

Board chair

Sister Mary Clarette Stryzewski

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed45787
Joined·+1+2+1+0
No longer listed·0001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $49k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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

HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

87% 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 HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC.

39%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 70% · 2022 56% · 2023 53% — 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

50% of HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

79% of HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES 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 $53k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.

PA
CA

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

’17
’18
’20
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Organizations like HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES 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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 40%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Felician Services Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC?
HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,330 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($99,765). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $253,330 in grants to HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC?
THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $99,765 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOPEBOUND MINISTRIES INC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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