Minnesota · Nonprofit
Mobile Hope
Mobile Hope (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,636,042 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($730,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Mobile Hope does
Mission
To build relationships, hope, and a culture of achievement within mobile home communities through education, healthy activities, resource connections, and faith development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mobile Hope puts a high value on educational development of both students and adults. Our after school programs are operated three days/wk and include literacy development, math drills, assignment help, reading time, site words, and more. For older students, STEM projects and teacher partnerships aid us in giving students targeted care. High school students are also brought on Vision Trips to see colleges, trade schools, and other post-secondary education options. And in the summer, students are a part of on-site summer school, summer fun, and teen force programs to keep them engaged and reduce summer slide.
$239,175 spentof which $1,767 as grants$893 earned by the program47% of program spendingTeens and preteens participate in our Journey program (5th-7th grade) and Treehouse program (8th-12th grade) where they can connect with one another and explore life's difficult questions. These programs include Connect nights, Peer Support Groups, and one-on-one mentorship programs with trusted adults. Last year alone, teens received over 1700 student mentoring hours by staff and volunteers. 91 student events were hosted inluding monthly trips off-site for fun, service projects, and learning opportunities.
$211,706 spent42% of program spendingMobile Hope has seen tremendous success with our Family Thrive program at our Corcoran and Dayton locations this year. In this program adults throughout our communities can meet with our Family Advocate to address challenges, set goals, apply for jobs, examine benefits they may qualify for, and receive physical or emotional support. Our neighbors received over 265 hours of one-on-one support throughout this year.
$56,873 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $507,754.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $942k to $1.7M (+78%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Mobile Hope’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Brian Dejewski
Executive Director
Board chair
Jim Teal
Board Chair, Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $24k → $168k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Mobile Hope’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
Mobile Hope leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 63%; 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 66% · 2018 33% · 2019 38% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 51% — 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
56% of Mobile Hope's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
98% of Mobile Hope's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Mobile Hope runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Mobile 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Mobile 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 Mobile Hope?
- Mobile Hope (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,636,042 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($730,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mobile Hope have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,636,042 in grants to Mobile Hope, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mobile Hope?
- THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mobile Hope find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing