New York · Nonprofit
LIFE OF HOPE
LIFE OF HOPE (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,050,513 to it, the largest being Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($263,057). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIFE OF HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 United Neighborhood Houses of New York Incshared funders
- Uw Edward & Ellen Roche Rel Fdnportfolio match
- Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 69% · 2023 77% · 2024 96% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LIFE OF HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $192k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LIFE OF HOPE’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
LIFE OF HOPE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 LIFE OF HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of LIFE OF HOPE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% 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
82% of LIFE OF HOPE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The United Neighborhood Houses of New York Incshared fundersNY · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- Uw Edward & Ellen Roche Rel Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Annabelle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope for New Yorkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Citizens Committee for New York City Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Durst Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Handshake Foundation Trust Thomas R Appleton Et Al Trusteesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Bank for New York Cityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Single Stop USA Incshared fundersNY · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Tiger Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- The Clark Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding LIFE OF HOPE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
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 LIFE OF HOPE
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.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE OF HOPE: 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 LIFE OF HOPE?
- LIFE OF HOPE (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,050,513 to it, the largest being Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($263,057). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,050,513 in grants to LIFE OF HOPE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE OF HOPE?
- Research Foundation of the City University of New York is the largest funder on record, with $263,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE OF HOPE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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