New York · Nonprofit
LADLES OF HOPE INC
LADLES OF HOPE INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,200 to it, the largest being ODYSSEY GROUP FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LADLES OF HOPE INC's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Marc Haas Foundation Inclocal
- Foodlink Incportfolio match
- Manhasset Community Fund Inclocal
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.
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.
99% of LADLES OF HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of LADLES OF HOPE 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
LADLES OF HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 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
LADLES OF HOPE INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Marc Haas Foundation InclocalNY · funds 130 organizations near you
- Foodlink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manhasset Community Fund InclocalNY · funds 37 organizations near you
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Harvest Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farm Share Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foodlink Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Food Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Harvestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LADLES OF HOPE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 LADLES OF HOPE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LADLES OF HOPE INC?
- LADLES OF HOPE INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,200 to it, the largest being ODYSSEY GROUP FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LADLES OF HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $100,200 in grants to LADLES OF HOPE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LADLES OF HOPE INC?
- ODYSSEY GROUP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LADLES OF HOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing