Iowa · Nonprofit
Mission of Hope
Mission of Hope (Iowa) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,947 to it, the largest being INNOGROUP FOUNDATION INC ($358,823). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $319k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $951k
- Net assets
- $345k
What Mission of Hope does
Mission
Mission of Hope is a Christ-centered ministry providing emergency relief, restoration and development services to the formerly incarcerated, the homeless, the addicted and others in need.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We expanded our clothing services, emergency food relief and added significantly more faith-based recovery and developmental programming.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Mission of Hope provided food assistance to our community by serving 28,018 weekday lunch meals, 20,888 meals from our food pantry and 14,040 meals from our Meal Sack program. We rescued 76,387 pounds of food from community partners, and received 23,491 pounds of donated food to help sustain these programs. We provided 757 families with 4,988 clothing items from our clothes closet. Our representative continued teachiing work-life programs at Hope Community Development Association. We helped our neighbors transitioning into housing by partnering them with local furnature donations and household goods. We offered Bible Studies, Faith-based recovery programming and provide access to services such as free phones, haircuts,and more.
$334,710 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $334,710.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $651k to $581k (−11%).
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.
94% of Mission of Hope’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Christopher C Caswell
Executive Director
Board chair
Randy Fouts
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $52k → $84k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 Mission of Hope’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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
Mission of Hope leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Mission of Hope.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 64% · 2019 62% · 2020 61% · 2021 78% · 2022 79% · 2023 52% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of Mission of Hope's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
73% of Mission of Hope'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 $258k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $693k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Mission of Hope's revenue fell 16% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,493 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Mission of Hope
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 Iowa
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
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mission 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Mission of Hope?
- Mission of Hope (Iowa) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $950,947 to it, the largest being INNOGROUP FOUNDATION INC ($358,823). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mission of Hope have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $950,947 in grants to Mission of Hope, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mission of Hope?
- INNOGROUP FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $358,823 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mission of Hope find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 21 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