Virginia · Nonprofit
RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $924,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($567,876). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $924k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Rising Hope United Methodist Church does
Mission
Rising hope is built on the belief that everyone deserves access to a community of support, and the opportunity to grow beyond their circumstances to achieve their self-expressed outcomes in life. As part of this belief, one of rising hope's key missions is working alongside individuals experiencing the crisis of homelessness and poverty in fairfax county. Rising hope's program is far reaching and addresses multiple expressed needs communicated to us by those with lived experience. At rising hope, individuals are addressed through a holistic approach where they find a spiritual home, emotional support, physical sustenance, and services tailored to help them move to the next phase of their life. We support individuals in a variety of the grant's focus areas including food insecurity, homeless support, and transportation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food ministry: rising hope has a market prioritizing fresh, nutrient dense, culturally relevant foods for over 750 families as well as a kitchen offering deliciously prepared meals in a sit-down style sunday through thursday at lunch time.
$1,489,320 spent$1,426,584 earned by the program77% of program spendingWorship ministry:rising hope has an active worship community that meets on sundays. This community prioritizes wholistic spiritual care to our service area. This community is lead by an ordained elder of the united methodist church.
$218,843 spent$34,650 earned by the program11% of program spendingEmergency assistance:rising hope provides access to case management, rent and utility support, mail, identification acquisition, and referral services.
$228,835 spent$380,902 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,936,998.
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.
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 $2.6M to $2.7M (+4%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $46k → $120k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 82% · 2019 88% · 2020 66% · 2021 89% · 2022 47% · 2023 76% — 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
13% of RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
92% of RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH'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. Of the $76k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $848k 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.
Organizations like RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: 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 RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH?
- RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $924,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($567,876). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $924,300 in grants to RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $567,876 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RISING HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 12 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