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Lugenia Burns Hope Center
Lugenia Burns Hope Center (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,922,589 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($482,400). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $0
What Lugenia Burns Hope Center does
Mission
The Lugenia Burns Hope was founded in 1994 by the former President Barack Obama and Centers for New Horizons CEO, Dr. Sokoni Karanja. It was founded as a leadership development and organizing institute. Our mission is to develop the civic engagement of residents in Chicagos Bronzeville neighborhood, and other communities, through education, leadership development and community organizing. We believe in community development by developing the communitys most precious asset, its people.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
The Lugenia Burns Hope Center offers trainings for groups of individiuals or for organizations. Our trainings focus on leadership development and community organizings skills. These skills are transferrable to any profession or trade.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $8k → $650k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Lugenia Burns Hope Center’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
Lugenia Burns Hope Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
41% 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 Lugenia Burns Hope Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 61% · 2019 40% · 2020 61% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 15% — 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
67% of Lugenia Burns Hope Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
77% of Lugenia Burns Hope Center's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $822k 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.
Organizations like Lugenia Burns Hope Center
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 Illinois
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lugenia Burns Hope Center?
- Lugenia Burns Hope Center (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,922,589 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($482,400). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lugenia Burns Hope Center have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,922,589 in grants to Lugenia Burns Hope Center, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lugenia Burns Hope Center?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $482,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lugenia Burns Hope Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 19 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