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SCARLET HOPE INC

SCARLET HOPE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,324,122 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($743,988). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$642k
22/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Scarlet Hope Inc does

Mission

Transition women out of the adult entertainment industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Weekley community outreach into local adult entertainment establishments, illegal massage parlors, brothels, the streets and local jails. We invite women into a safe community where they encounter empowering case management and pathways towards discipleship. Over 95,475 women were encountered through outreach.

    $628,992 spentof which $66,416 as grants
    64% of program spending
  2. Local resource center and weekly program with an average of over 30 women served each month in the resource center. Assistance and meals provide for the immediate needs of our clients.

    $168,415 spent
    17% of program spending
  3. Discipleship and job training and offered through weekly bible study, case management, counseling, workshops and job placement.

    $66,340 spent
    7% of program spending
  4. Freedom signal is created software that is used to reach victims of sexual exploitation.

    $112,370 spent$60,409 earned by the program
    12% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $976,117.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($942k) Expenses 100 ($910k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 119 ($1.1M) Expenses 127 ($1.2M) Net assets 97 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 158 ($1.5M) Expenses 162 ($1.5M) Net assets 98 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 80 ($757k) Expenses 116 ($1.1M) Net assets 71 ($760k)2021 Revenue 94 ($889k) Expenses 95 ($866k) Net assets 73 ($785k)2022 Revenue 35 ($334k) Expenses 59 ($534k) Net assets 55 ($588k)2023 Revenue 156 ($1.5M) Expenses 151 ($1.4M) Net assets 63 ($680k)2024 Revenue 171 ($1.6M) Expenses 186 ($1.7M) Net assets 56 ($599k)2025 Revenue 148 ($1.4M) Expenses 178 ($1.6M) Net assets 60 ($642k)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (178)Net assets (60)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $1.0M (−23%).

$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.0M
$997k
$769k
$866k
$798k
$841k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of SCARLET HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’17
−$30k
’18
$13k
’19
−$295k
’20
$23k
’21
−$200k
’22
$96k
’23
−$80k
’24
−$225k
’25
1.6
months of
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.

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Listed57691010669
Joined·+2+4+3+1+0+0+3+3
No longer listed·05000430
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $151k → $314k.

12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 SCARLET HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

SCARLET HOPE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

54% 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 SCARLET HOPE INC.

32%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 72% · 2019 39% · 2020 44% · 2021 49% · 2022 31% · 2023 38% — 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

37% of SCARLET HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

53% of SCARLET 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. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Kentucky funders.

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WI
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SCARLET HOPE INC's revenue grew 48% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 30%Fundraising 9%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

KY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Freedom Signal · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCARLET HOPE INC?
SCARLET HOPE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,324,122 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($743,988). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SCARLET HOPE INC have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,324,122 in grants to SCARLET HOPE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCARLET HOPE INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $743,988 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCARLET HOPE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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