California · Nonprofit
Project Hope Alliance
Project Hope Alliance (California) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,591,887 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,039,184). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $496k
What Project Hope Alliance does
Mission
The mission of Project Hope Alliance is to end the cycle of homelessness, one child at a time. Our vision is equipping homeless children with the tools and opportunities to learn their way to a better tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Onsite and Offsite Case Management - the organization deploys a long-term, on-site intervention model for children and youth experiencing homelessness, who face obstacles that prevent them from accessing resources, being a kid, and achieving educational and life goals. They work one-on-one with kids, placing full-time case managers on elementary, junior high, and high school campuses. Case managers identify homeless students and remove barriers to their basic needs (such as food, clothing, or transportation). As stable and trusted adult mentors, they also conduct regular check-ins to provide educational support and facilitate connections to needed resources. (Case management for post-high school youth is provided individually and is not tied to a school campus.) The organization served 1,191 students during the fiscal year ending 6-30-2025.
$2,798,823 spentof which $320,355 as grants$488,038 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,798,823.
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 $780k to $1.2M (+60%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 15% · 2022 10% · 2023 8% · 2024 15% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Project Hope Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jennifer Friend
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $624k → $904k.
18 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Project Hope Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
Project Hope Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
50% 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 Project Hope Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 63% · 2019 62% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% — 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
50% of Project Hope Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
66% of Project Hope Alliance's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M 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
Project Hope Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Project Hope Alliance
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 California
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
91%
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 Project Hope Alliance: 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 Project Hope Alliance?
- Project Hope Alliance (California) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,591,887 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,039,184). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Project Hope Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $9,591,887 in grants to Project Hope Alliance, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Hope Alliance?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,039,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Hope Alliance find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 102 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