Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
The Hope Association
The Hope Association (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,715 to it, the largest being The Mikhail Family Foundation ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $287k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $194k
- Net assets
- $286k
What The Hope Association does
Mission
A purpose driven organization that seeks to joyfully meet the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of the local community in the D.C. Metro area.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
The Healthy Start Program delivers healthy and nutritious food to children from low-income families over weekends and long holidays, including summer and winter break, when there are no guaranteed meals from schools. Through a partnership with local DC public schools, we serve 100 elementary aged children in the D.C. area who live in high poverty, food insecure households by collecting healthy and nutritious food and filling backpacks with both perishable and non-perishable foods for children to take home.
$135,935 spent33% of program spendingHopes Mobile Health Clinics in Egypt is our way of providing a solution to the healthcare inequities that plague so many people in need all over Egypt. Through partnerships with local hospitals and medical clinics in Egypt, we are utilizing medical professionals to give back of their talents and bring their expertise to communities who typically couldnt access this level of care. We know we cant do it alone so these partnerships allow us to serve more people and connect more resources to those in need than we ever could on our own.
$134,497 spent33% of program spendingLove Your City (LYC) program is our way of making a real impact in the lives of those in need in our local community and engaging first time volunteers and groups in a low commitment environment.
$84,246 spent20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$56,986 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $411,664.
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 $417k to $637k (+53%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of The Hope Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Steve Messeh
Executive Director
Board chair
Olivia Garrett
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $16k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 The Hope Association’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
The Hope Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 The Hope Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 34% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — 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
33% of The Hope Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
The Hope Association draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
The Hope Association is better cushioned than half of the 12,278 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,278 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like The Hope Association
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 The Hope Association: 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 The Hope Association?
- The Hope Association (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,715 to it, the largest being The Mikhail Family Foundation ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Hope Association have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $193,715 in grants to The Hope Association, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Hope Association?
- The Mikhail Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Hope Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 10 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