Illinois · Nonprofit
One Hope United
One Hope United (Illinois) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,728,231 to it, the largest being START EARLY ($16,371,671). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $44M
What One Hope United does
Mission
One Hope United serves and advocates for the thriving of children, youth, and families through quality early childhood education, residential care, child welfare, and mental health services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential: One Hope United offers placement services when risk to a child from abuse and neglect is so great and the family situation is so deteriorated that the child must be removed from his or her home. We served 138 children through Illinois placement services in FY25. We served 51 children through Florida placement services in FY25.
$34,253,585 spentof which $584,514 as grants42% of program spendingFoster Care/Community Based Family Support Services/Florida Placement: In foster care/Florida placement, we provide case management services with the child while working to strengthen the biological family so that the child may safely return home. In FY25, we served 3,297 clients. In CBFS, One Hope United provides on-site and outreach counseling to families in their homes. Services are aimed at preserving families, strengthening family functioning and preventing family breakdown. In FY25, we served 7,836 clients and families through community based family support services.
$32,528,285 spentof which $3,705,533 as grants$2,443,132 earned by the program40% of program spendingChild Development Services: The One Hope United Child Development Program supports families by providing accessible, affordable, high-quality childcare and early education services to develop the social, emotional, intellectual and physical development of the children we serve. In FY25, we served 1,002 children through child development services and additionally, we served 239 families through our Home Visiting and Doula programs.
$14,345,616 spentof which $46,185 as grants$938,236 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,127,486.
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 2020 to 2021, from $44M to $60M (+34%).
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 74% · 2018 80% · 2019 65% · 2020 66% · 2021 63% · 2022 71% · 2023 69% · 2024 83% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of One Hope United’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Chris Hoffman
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $2.6M → $5.1M.
18 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 One Hope United’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
One Hope United leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 One Hope United.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 77% · 2019 74% · 2020 26% · 2021 56% · 2022 49% · 2023 44% — 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
43% of One Hope United's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
One Hope United draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
One Hope United has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding One Hope United receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
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 One Hope United
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- One Hope United Title Holding · exempt
- Charitable Lead Trusts (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for One Hope United: 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 One Hope United?
- One Hope United (Illinois) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,728,231 to it, the largest being START EARLY ($16,371,671). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does One Hope United have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $46,728,231 in grants to One Hope United, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of One Hope United?
- START EARLY is the largest funder on record, with $16,371,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like One Hope United 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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