New York · Nonprofit
SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC
SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,951,701 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($27,744,596). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $79M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Shining Hope for Communities Inc does
Mission
Shining hope for communities is a grassroots movement that catalyzes large-scale transformation in urban slums by providing critical services for all, community advocacy platforms, and education and leadership development for women and girls.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shining hope community centers: shofco's community programs in kenya's urban slums include 17 libraries & community centers (257,339 beneficiaries), employability & entrepreneurship training (33,372 beneficiaries), shofco women's empowerment project (swep) (9,963 beneficiaries), groups savings & loans (18,340 beneficiaries), gender based violence response (10,229 beneficiaries), and the shofco urban network (1,438,120 beneficiaries and dependents). In total, shofco served 1,800,642 beneficiaries in 2023.
$12,644,042 spentof which $5,689,866 as grants65% of program spendingOther programs:kenya program operations relate to the coordination of all grassroots movement work across the various major program delivery areas. Shofco ensures complete integrations of the programs and this is closely coordinated by a competent management team and shared infrastructure which is run and maintained to ensure no disruption to services. Shofco senior management shared time and costs to keep shared infrastructure running and maintained. There are also costs related to monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment across all programs areas.
$3,744,534 spentof which $10,558 as grants19% of program spendingJohanna justin-jinich community clinic: shofco operates community clinics in kibera and mathare. Shofco's community clinics consist of one main clinic and five satellite locations in addition to supporting the governement community health strategy in outreachs using community health promoters. These clinics provide primary care, child and maternal health care, cervical cancer screening, child immunizations, nutrition program, comprehensive hiv care, family planning, gender based violence response, health education, and door to door outreach. The clinics are staffed with clinical officers, nurses, pharmacy technicians, lab technicians, and community health workers. Shofco clinics and community outreaches served a total of 467,087 patients in 2023.
$1,599,364 spent$2,833 earned by the program8% of program spendingKibera school for girls (ksg) and mathare school for girls (msg): shofco operates two girls' leadership and education academies in kibera and mathare serving 613 girls, providing high quality education to some of the brightest but at-risk girls. These free academies also provide uniforms, meals, school supplies, and psychosocial support. Also included are after-school programs and extracurricular activities that serve to provide leadership training and access to positive female role models. The shofco primary education program served 613 girls in 2023
$1,422,084 spentof which $49,263 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,410,024.
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 2020 to 2021, from $21M to $43M (+104%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kennedy Odede
President & CEO
Board chair
Jeremy Mindich
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $20M.
28 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 52% · 2019 28% · 2020 15% · 2021 81% · 2022 78% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
35% of SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
55% of SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES 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 $23M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of State$100k
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 SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES 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 SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC?
- SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,951,701 to it, the largest being MASTERCARD FOUNDATION ($27,744,596). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $78,951,701 in grants to SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC?
- MASTERCARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,744,596 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 115 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