Kentucky · Nonprofit
THE HOPE CENTER INC
THE HOPE CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,789,598 to it, the largest being DON JACOBS SR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($883,500). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $22M
What The Hope Center Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide comprehensive life-sustaining and life-rebuilding services that promote healing from substance use disorder, mental health disorders, and homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Substance abuse recovery program us a nonmedical safe off streets unit at the men's and women's centers. More than half of the homeless population in the united states suffers from addiction to drugs or alcohol. Women's recovery program 17,775 nights lodging 53,325 meals served 101 women who entered into the recovery program. Men's recovery program 33,906 nights lodging 117,043 meals served 361 men who entered into the recovery program. Follow up studies indicate the men have a continuing sobriety rate of 65% at one year while the women maintain a 70% sobriety rate.
$4,236,937 spent40% of program spendingShelter services provides overnight emergency shelter to adult men with a bed capacity of 144 and an overflow capacity around 250 men a night. The shelter provided 58,592 nights of lodging and served 103,525 meals in 2025. The emergency shelter also provides clothing, showers, laundry facilities and other services to clients in addition to basic case management services to assist with housing, applying for benefits and other services to assist with moving out of homelessness.
$1,881,435 spent18% of program spendingMental health program is designed to assist men who have serious mental illness or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders by providing counseling, life skills, case management services, connections with community mental health services and residential treatment for both mental health and substance use using a community based model. The program also assists clients, many of which have come from institutions, such as jails, prisons, and psychiatric facilities, with transitioning into housing after completing the program. 56 men were admitted into the mental health program last year.
$1,643,061 spent15% of program spendingBarbara h. Rouse apartments is a 44 unit apartment building that provides drug and alcohol free affordable permanent housing for women in recovery. It also provides an atmosphere that supports their continued sobriety and is located next to the women's recovery program where residents can continue to receive services. Employment services program prepares residents to enter the job market by providing job readiness skills, including resume building, assistance with completing online applications or interviewing skills. The program also assists with applying for jobs in the community and the program coordinator meets with local employers to facilitate employment opportunities. Services include providing transportation to interviews and orientations and education on budgeting and saving money in preparation for life outside of the hope center. Mobile outreach program brings the hope center's services to those men and women who may be most needy. Stationed at a different lexington church every weekday, hope mobile staff are equipped to assist clients, provide for basic needs, refer them elsewhere or transport them to the hope center or another appropriate agency. Street outreach…
$2,866,241 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,627,674.
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 2024 to 2025, from $20M to $24M (+19%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 13% · 2021 17% · 2022 35% · 2023 20% · 2024 39% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of THE HOPE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Cathy Jacobs
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $225k → $899k.
9 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $150k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hope Center Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE HOPE CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE HOPE CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
THE HOPE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% 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 CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 51% · 2019 25% · 2020 18% · 2021 28% · 2022 15% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of THE HOPE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
90% of THE HOPE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE HOPE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.1M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$4.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$613k
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 THE HOPE CENTER 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Hope Center Services LLC · disregarded
- Hope Center Foundation Inc · exempt
- Hope Center Recovery Program · partnership
- Shepherd's Place Apartments LLC · partnership
- Hope Center Permanent · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC?
- THE HOPE CENTER INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,789,598 to it, the largest being DON JACOBS SR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($883,500). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HOPE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $4,789,598 in grants to THE HOPE CENTER INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOPE CENTER INC?
- DON JACOBS SR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $883,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOPE CENTER 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 62 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