Oklahoma · Nonprofit
RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC
RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,721 to it, the largest being LYON FOUNDATION ($89,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $299k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Ray of Hope Advocacy Center Inc does
Mission
To facilitate a coordinated, community response to abuse and to provide hope and support to children and families impacted by abuse
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Child advocacy program: ray of hope has a child-focused advocacy program in which representatives from many disciplines work together, conducting joint forensic interviews and making team decisions about the investigation, treatment, management, and prosecution of child abuse cases.
$630,999 spent76% of program spendingDomestic violence program: ray of hope provides survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking access to strength-based safety planning, protective order assistance and court accompaniment, education, case management, ongoing advocacy, access to crime victim rights and compensation and referrals to ongoing services and resources.
$199,369 spent24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $830,368.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.0M (+9%).
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 19% · 2018 90% · 2019 63% · 2020 76% · 2021 82% · 2022 73% · 2023 81% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $29k → $48k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER 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.
How concentrated its funding is
RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 95% · 2019 70% · 2020 42% · 2021 72% · 2022 45% · 2023 54% — broadly stable.
“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 RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
90% of RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86k on record.
- Assistance Payments$85k
- OthHlth Svc.-(Non-DHS)$500
- Laboratory Svcs and Supplies$250
- Laboratory Services$150
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 RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER 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 RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC?
- RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,721 to it, the largest being LYON FOUNDATION ($89,300). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $298,721 in grants to RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC?
- LYON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $89,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAY OF HOPE ADVOCACY CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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