South Carolina · Nonprofit
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,113,847 to it, the largest being GREENWOOD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($633,843). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Project Hope Foundation Inc does
Mission
Project hope foundation provides a lifespan of autism services through its nine programs that focus on individual, group, classroom, and community education. Its mission is to help families, open minds, promote inclusion, and expand potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To promote inclusion and expand potential, we provide a variety of classroom opportunities thorugh our hope academy program, including inclusion classrooms where children with autism learn side-by-side with typical peers in a mainstream classroom; autism-specific classrooms that focus on academics as well as building self-help, communication, and community skills; behavioral classrooms that focus on self-help and community interaction skills; and computer-based classrooms that enable students with autism to earn a diploma without the organization and social stresses of mainsteam classrooms. The program serves appoximately 85 students in pre-k through high school classrooms.
$17,957,096 spent91% of program spendingIn our hope reach program, we open minds by providing 25-40 hours per week of intense applied behavior analysis (aba) therapy focusing on language, behavioral, social, and cognitive skills to over 60 children with autism.
$585,747 spent3% of program spendingTo provide services for individuals with autism spectrum and related disorders, with support information, and hope in the pursuit of helping potential emerge from each such individual.
$1,269,768 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,812,611.
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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $17M (+31%).
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 11% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Joe Vaughn
Chair - pres
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $565k → $694k.
16 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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 FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 33% · 2020 25% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 14% — 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
42% of PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
67% of PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 FOUNDATION 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 PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC?
- PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,113,847 to it, the largest being GREENWOOD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($633,843). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $4,113,847 in grants to PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC?
- GREENWOOD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $633,843 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 57 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