Virginia · Nonprofit
NETHOPE INC
NETHOPE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,596,018 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($15,007,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Nethope Inc does
Mission
Nethope empowers committed nonprofit organizations to change the world through the power of technology. Refer to continuation in schedule o.by facilitating collaboration between nethope's nonprofit members, charitable foundations and tech sponsors, nethope is a catalyst for productive innovation and problem-solving in humanitarian and conservation work. Since its founding in 2001, nethope has grown to represent 65 top tier international ngos, working on some of the world's toughest challenges including poverty and hunger, refugee displacement, human trafficking, gender inequality, and environmental protection in 180 countries worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency preparedness and response: nethope has responded in a variety of disaster situations from sudden onset natural disasters to conflict/post conflict events. Nethope's emergency preparedness and response program provides a digital-first support to its members, humanitarian responders, and affected population through information sharing and coordination, provision of internet connectivity equipment, and digital protection and cybersecurity support. Nethope also provides training, disaster assessment, and prepositioning of equipment to increase resilience of responders.
$979,215 spent21% of program spendingSummit: the nethope global summit is an educational conference helping nonprofits with digital transformation and innovation to enable their missions. Participants from across the nonprofit and private sectors, along with philanthropists gather to learn and build partnerships to make a difference.
$987,958 spent$969,156 earned by the program21% of program spendingNethope digital leadership institute: the nethope digital leadership institute (ndli) is a learning platform that offers a range of learning opportunities for those working in the development, humanitarian, and conservation sectors. Its flagship course, leadership skills for a digital age, equips nonprofit leaders with technical expertise and strategic insight necessary to navigate today's evolving landscape and leverage technology effectively.
$668,890 spent$297,012 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services: in fy23 nethope continued its work in the center for digital non-profit, emergency preparedness and response, capacity building, climate intersections, collective impact, and program development.
$1,979,989 spentof which $232,681 as grants$1,808,548 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,616,052.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.5M to $19M (+644%).
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: 2017 38% · 2018 26% · 2019 27% · 2020 17% · 2021 18% · 2022 1% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of NETHOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (69% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
Lance Pierce
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Karl Lowe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $448k → $883k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 NETHOPE 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
NETHOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 NETHOPE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 39% · 2019 66% · 2020 73% · 2021 32% · 2022 87% · 2023 46% — 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 NETHOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
88% of NETHOPE INC'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 $3.2M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NETHOPE INC is better cushioned than half of the 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NETHOPE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.8M on record.
- Agency for International Development$4.8M
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 NETHOPE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 NETHOPE 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 NETHOPE INC?
- NETHOPE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,596,018 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($15,007,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NETHOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $25,596,018 in grants to NETHOPE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NETHOPE INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,007,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NETHOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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