Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HOPEPHL
HOPEPHL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,353,938 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($2,807,657). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Hopephl does
Mission
Hopephl inspires philadelphia's children, youth, families, and communities to thrive by providing housing, advocacy, and trauma-responsive social services designed to promote equity, resilience, autonomy, and well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education services - Hopephl continues to partner with the school district to assist in the identification of children and youth who are mckinney-vento eligible and provided supportive services including rental assistance to their families. Our pccd contract enabled us to address the counseling needs of students who have experienced trauma. Through our general case management program, Hopephl provides services to school age children and their families in the wright elementary school. This program helps to address barriers which may be interfering with a child's ability to fully engage in school/learning while also providing parents with opportunities to also engage with the school and build a sense of community. Our family visiting and parent education program addresses the relationship between young children and their parents by providing activities which promote attachment and understanding of the social and emotional needs of young children.
$3,464,696 spent30% of program spendingPrevention/diversion: this year, with an award from td's housing for everyone competition, Hopephl continued their provision of rental and utility assistance to families at risk of being evicted. In partnership with penn hospital's violence prevention program, Hopephl received a grant from the philadelphia coalition to save lives to provide rental assistance to families affected by gun violence. In some cases, this may mean relocating a family to ensure their safety.
$3,464,695 spent$435,691 earned by the program30% of program spendingSocial services fy 2024 marked the first full year of operations post-merger. In fy 2025, Hopephl continues to provide an array of housing programs with supportive services to youth and families experiencing homelessness. In addition, we also provide supportive services to families in the community through our family empowerment services. Our truancy intervention program works with children and families with an identified truancy issue and aims to mitigate the causes of the truancy and to prevent court involvement.
$3,464,695 spent30% of program spendingHopephl provides outreach services to youth experiencing housing insecurity / homelessness who may be living on the street or in places considered to be uninhabitable; we also provide transportation services to youth who have been detained by the police during overnight hours to ensure they return home safely and when returning home is not an immediate option we provide overnight shelter.
$1,189,489 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,583,575.
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 $17M to $29M (+71%).
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: 2017 76% · 2018 72% · 2019 64% · 2020 65% · 2021 63% · 2022 59% · 2023 64% · 2024 75% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of HOPEPHL’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. 6 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.
Board chair
Trina Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $256k → $1.8M.
11 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Pec Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HOPEPHL raised.
From the IRS filings of HOPEPHL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
HOPEPHL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
36% 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 HOPEPHL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 49% · 2019 44% · 2020 39% · 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 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
53% of HOPEPHL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
67% of HOPEPHL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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
HOPEPHL has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HOPEPHL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.2M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$11.4M
- Department of Justice$1.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$750k
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 HOPEPHL
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- The Pec Foundation · exempt
- Hopephl Community Development Corp · exempt
- Big Daisy Corporation · exempt
- Rowan House · exempt
- Saunders Park LP · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPEPHL: 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 HOPEPHL?
- HOPEPHL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,353,938 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($2,807,657). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPEPHL have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $10,353,938 in grants to HOPEPHL, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPEPHL?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,807,657 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPEPHL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 90 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