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LIGHT OF HOPE INC

LIGHT OF HOPE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,899 to it, the largest being South Texas Outreach Foundation ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$106k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$92k
Net assets
$441k
2/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Light of Hope Inc does

Mission

Light of hope is a 501 c 3non-profit assisting individuals and families facing the struggle of substance misuse and providing prevention education to our communities. Our services include out two main focues: recovery support and prevention education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. School and community drug education outreach. Partnered with the drug enforcement administration books used: life recovery bible; hope in the struggle; boundaries; financial peace; the twelve gifts and palm crosses.

    $18,454 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,454.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2018 Revenue 267 ($40k) Expenses 303 ($29k) Net assets 224 ($19k)2019 Revenue 678 ($101k) Expenses 721 ($70k) Net assets 599 ($50k)2020 Revenue 985 ($146k) Expenses 1180 ($114k) Net assets 988 ($82k)2021 Revenue 1145 ($170k) Expenses 1808 ($174k) Net assets 933 ($77k)2022 Revenue 1029 ($153k) Expenses 2106 ($203k) Net assets 324 ($27k)2023 Revenue 4018 ($596k) Expenses 2083 ($201k) Net assets 5087 ($422k)2024 Revenue 1294 ($192k) Expenses 1558 ($150k) Net assets 5589 ($464k)2025 Revenue 716 ($106k) Expenses 1331 ($128k) Net assets 5322 ($441k)
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Revenue (716)Expenses (1331)Net assets (5322)Peer revenue range

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 $113k to $430k (+279%).

$8k
$19k
$50k
$82k
$142k
$113k
$430k
$538k
$510k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of LIGHT OF HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$10k
’18
$31k
’19
$32k
’20
−$5k
’21
−$51k
’22
$395k
’23
$42k
’24
−$22k
’25
10
months of
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

Nancy Phelps

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed66665555
Joined·+3+1+0+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·3102020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $25k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 LIGHT 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

LIGHT OF HOPE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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

33%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 79% · 2021 71% · 2022 49% · 2023 60% — 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

25% of LIGHT OF HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 18% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

LIGHT OF HOPE INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 5 states in all.

WA
CO
OK
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIGHT OF HOPE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LIGHT OF HOPE 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 Oklahoma

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

5% of spending goes to programs.

Program 5%Management 95%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGHT 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIGHT OF HOPE INC?
LIGHT OF HOPE INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,899 to it, the largest being South Texas Outreach Foundation ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIGHT OF HOPE INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $91,899 in grants to LIGHT OF HOPE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIGHT OF HOPE INC?
South Texas Outreach Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIGHT OF HOPE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 11 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