Kentucky · Nonprofit
Second Hope Ministeries Corporation
Second Hope Ministeries Corporation (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,065 to it, the largest being IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $224k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $116k
What Second Hope Ministeries Corporation does
Mission
To deliver the hope of Jesus to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals - Helping them rebuild their lives,restore relationships, and return to society with purpose and dignity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To deliver the hope of Jesus to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals - Helping them rebuild their lives, restore relationships, and return to society with purpose and dignity.
$137,783 spent$224,155 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $137,783.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $47k to $116k (+148%).
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.
89% of Second Hope Ministeries Corporation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% 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.
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
Nicholas P Graham
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of Second Hope Ministeries Corporation’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
Second Hope Ministeries Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Second Hope Ministeries Corporation's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Second Hope Ministeries Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Second Hope Ministeries Corporation
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Second Hope Ministeries Corporation: 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 Second Hope Ministeries Corporation?
- Second Hope Ministeries Corporation (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,065 to it, the largest being IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Second Hope Ministeries Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $218,065 in grants to Second Hope Ministeries Corporation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Second Hope Ministeries Corporation?
- IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Second Hope Ministeries Corporation 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 6 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