Wisconsin · Nonprofit
INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC
INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,742 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($464,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $261k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $529k
- Net assets
- $302k
What Inspiring Hope Ministries Inc does
Mission
Inspiring hope ministries creates accessible opportunities to pursue healing, learning, faith, and the creative arts for adults with disabilities, their families, and their extended communities, helping build meaningful lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Inspiring hope ministries, inc. (ihm) operates a creative arts life center that accomplishes the following: (1) create - an inspiring hope arts studio supporting creative experiences that encourage a community of ihm artists and those who desire to explore the arts with them; (2) learn - educational opportunities encouraging learning about and exploring the world around us as we build relationships together; (3) heal - pursuing a whole life; body, soul and spirit. Providing opportunities for prayer, encouragement, restoration, rejoicing and pursuit of wellness and building of a faith community; (4) grow - developing opportunities for growth in life wholeness for individuals and families. Creating jobs for life work and contributing to our community through the hope bookstore; (5) shine - displaying our creativity through dance, song, theater, improve and a gallery of visual arts to show what we are doing!
$55,343 spent$12,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,343.
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. 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 $130k to $302k (+133%).
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.
95% of INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $148k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC’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
INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
93% of INSPIRING HOPE 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 $38k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $491k 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.
Against its field
INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like INSPIRING HOPE 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC: 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 INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC?
- INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,742 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($464,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $528,742 in grants to INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $464,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSPIRING HOPE MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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