Illinois · Nonprofit
PROJECT HOPE INC
PROJECT HOPE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $55,248 to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($55,248). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Project Hope Inc does
Mission
We strive to positively affect our community and alter the trajectory of its residents. We work toward our goal by promoting self-awareness, providing intergenerational mentoring, and offering opportunities for skill-building, training, and education. We're guided by our values: Health: We support holistic health care, which includes physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness. Opportunity: We ensure equality and equity for those who are often overlooked. Purpose: We help people develop their talents and creativity, helping them succeed and improving society for all. Education: We provide opportunities for people to acquire knowledge and skills, a key component of upward mobility and poverty reduction. Empowerment: We promote a safe, uplifting environment where people recognize their power to oppress but to liberate.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Back to School Bash: Started in 2013 as a way to connect the community to resources that promote education and empowerment. It's held annually right before school starts. This free event gives away over 1,000 backpacks with school supplies and includes local non-profit organizations. Project Hope purchases the back packs that are filled with supplies.
$14,750 spent85% of program spendingMENTORING PROGRAM: - We supported New Hope Baptist Church by helping cover the cost of transportation for Local high school students to attend the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) football game and engaging with over 50 HBCU representatives about admission opportunities. The student would have the opportunity to attend the HBCU college fair, battle of the bands, tailgating, and the football game. ANY high schooler is welcome to attend, and scholarships will be offered as well.
$2,503 spent15% of program spendingCOMMUNITY PROGRAMMING: $500.00 -Juneteenth. In celebration of this important day, residents of DeKalb County will be gathering at Hopkins Park for fun, fellowship, and food. The festivities will take place on June 15, 2024, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The event will include local vendors, social services, music, food trucks, activities and much more. While this significant milestone is typically noted by African-Americans; this gathering will be welcoming and inviting to everyone. -Fire Victims Donations $1,000.00: There was a fire in a building in a Dekalb IL apartment building that displaced 10 families that included 40 people. Several NFPs and Social Services are helping but more support is needed. Project HOPE partnered with New Hope, First Lutheran Church, and United Methodist Church in Sycamore, and Passion over Profits. Each organization would contribute $1000 ($5000 total) and give each family a gift card for $500.
$0 spentof which $1,500 as grants0% of program spendingSIMBA/SIMSA is a national organization, rescue, release and restore that mentors African American children ages 8-17. There was an annual week-long camping trip that included 14 young men and 3 male chaperones. They explore positive choices to envision a brighter future. The trip is to help transforms the self worth and empowers youth through leadership training, artistic expression and mentorship.
$0 spentof which $4,430 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,253.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $81k to $119k (+48%).
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.
99% of PROJECT HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Joe Mitchell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PROJECT HOPE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT HOPE 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT HOPE 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 INC?
- PROJECT HOPE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $55,248 to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($55,248). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $55,248 in grants to PROJECT HOPE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT HOPE INC?
- DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,248 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT HOPE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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