Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 571 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,605,584 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($6,999,997). 270 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $186M
- Funders on record
- 571
- Grants received
- $86M
- Net assets
- $57M
What Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc does
Mission
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they serve; strengthening and improving health systems; providing disaster and humanitarian relief and fostering and promoting health policy research and thought-leadership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS: PROJECT HOPE WORKED IN 25+ COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES IN 2025 TO ADDRESS THE MOST PRESSING HEALTH NEEDS OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. WE WORK WITHIN EXISTING HEALTH SYSTEMS TO EMPOWER HEALTH WORKERS AND PROVIDE THE SOLUTIONS COMMUNITIES NEED MOST. WE UTILIZE EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGIES TO PROVIDE DIRECT HEALTH CARE SERVICES, EQUIPPING CLINICS AND HOSPITALS, AND TRAINING LOCAL HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN THE AREAS OF INFECTIOUS AND NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE, AND MATERNAL, NEONATAL, AND CHILD HEALTH. PROJECT HOPE PARTNERS WITH CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, UNIVERSITIES, MINISTRIES OF HEALTH, AND LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS TO UNDERSTAND THE GREATEST NEEDS FACING LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND DELIVER SOLUTIONS THAT IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. In 2025, Project Hope reached nearly 5 million people worldwide and reached over 3.6 million people affected by disasters and humanitarian crises. Project Hope provided direct medical services to more than 3.1 million patients. We reached more than 1.4 million women, infants, and children through programs aimed at reducing mortality and improving survival (reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and…
$67,540,670 spentof which $19,238,783 as grants53% of program spendingDisasters and health care: project hope addresses health care needs by responding urgently to global health emergencies and helping communities better prepare for the next time disaster strikes. We support local health systems with immediate and long-term relief in the wake of disaster, often staying beyond our initial response to help communities as they move into recovery. As outbreaks of diseases, climate change, and conflict continue to endanger entire populations, project hope plays a pivotal role helping communities become more resilient to disasters that threaten public health. Our specific solutions include: providing immediate relief to fill gaps in basic needs, protection and health services, particularly in vulnerable or crisis-affected populations; providing direct health care services or access to such services; training first responders; equipping and staffing clinics and hospitals, deploying volunteer medical professionals, providing essential medicines and supplies; and strengthening country capacity to prevent, prepare for and respond to emerging threats. During 2025, our disaster response and humanitarian assistance activities reached over 5 million people,…
$51,392,406 spent40% of program spendingHealth policy health affairs: health affairs, the leading journal of health policy thought and research, is published by project hope. The peer-reviewed journal appears monthly in print and online with additional articles released online ahead of print. Published since 1981, the washington post has called health affairs the bible of health policy. Health affairs publishes policy briefs and a widely read blog, both of which are available at no charge on our website. Health affairs hosts a range of public events and media briefings.
$8,687,686 spent$3,023,288 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $127,620,762.
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 $50M to $70M (+40%).
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 13% · 2018 25% · 2019 27% · 2020 21% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Rabih Talih Torbay
President and CEO
Board chair
Reynold W Mooney
Board director - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 115 funders to 190 funders, grant income rose $3.6M → $16M.
77 of 571 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 571 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 - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 14 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 14 funders to its left
47% 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 - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 12% · 2021 18% · 2022 9% · 2023 23% — 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
39% of PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 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 - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 98 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 98 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105.2M on record.
- Agency for International Development$84.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.0M
- Department of State$10.0M
- Department of Agriculture$6k
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 PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 42 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Project Hope Mexico Ac · exempt
- Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation (Namibia) Inc · exempt
- Project Hope - the People to People Health Foundation Nigeria Ltdgte · exempt
- Proyecto Esperanza Ac Av · exempt
- Fundacja Project Hope Polska · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC?
- PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 571 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,605,584 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($6,999,997). 270 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 571 organizations giving $85,605,584 in grants to PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC, 270 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,999,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 571 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