New Mexico · Nonprofit
HOPEWORKS
HOPEWORKS (New Mexico) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,434,608 to it, the largest being J KORBER FOUNDATION INC ($485,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Hopeworks does
Mission
To provide a place where homeless people could come and gain protection from the elements and provide for many other basic needs, such as meals, showers, clothing and health care. Also, to provide various services to homeless people such as counseling and housing alternatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hopeworks is a 501 (C)(3) nonprofit organization. Founded in 1985 by a group of concerned leaders, hopeworks has grown to become the largest provider of services for people experiencing (or at risk of) homelessness in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Every year, approximately 11,000 individuals seek services from Hopeworks. Our mission is to assist people who are experiencing homelessness or near homelessness by providing resources, opportunities, and hope. We aim to end homelessness, one person, one family at a time. No one is turned away. We treat everyone with dignity and respect, and most importantly, we offer them hope for a better tomorrow. But, hopeworks is more than a homeless shelter. Our day shelter is not only where meals are served, but also has: - a mail room. - A place to shower. - Access to health and hygiene items like razors, deodorant, sunscreen, undergarments, and feminine hygiene products. - Short-term and long-term storage. - Access to telephone and Internet. - A clothing room. We also offer: - behavior and mental health services, as well as individual and group therapy. Hopeworks as a community mental health center, which means we can provide the services to anyone,…
$7,958,848 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,958,848.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.7M to $17M (+116%).
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 60% · 2018 57% · 2020 44% · 2021 50% · 2022 59% · 2023 50% · 2024 59% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Leon Dixon
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $97k → $432k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 HOPEWORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
HOPEWORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 21% · 2019 27% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 20% · 2023 41% — 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
45% of HOPEWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
69% of HOPEWORKS's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $566k 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.
Government funding HOPEWORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.1M
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 HOPEWORKS
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 1 related entity
- Hope Village LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPEWORKS: 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 HOPEWORKS?
- HOPEWORKS (New Mexico) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,434,608 to it, the largest being J KORBER FOUNDATION INC ($485,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPEWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,434,608 in grants to HOPEWORKS, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPEWORKS?
- J KORBER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $485,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPEWORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 42 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