Arizona · Nonprofit
THE HOPE EFFECT
THE HOPE EFFECT (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,835 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($97,602). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $762k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $302k
What The Hope Effect does
Mission
The Hope Effect is a nonprofit organization changing how the world cares for orphans by implementing innovative family-based solutions. We facilitate family-style care that provides opportunity for each child to flourish and thrive in a family environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Family-style care programs: in sonora, michoacan, and jalisco, mexico, we have received government approval to develop and facilitate family-style care programs. We work with governments to implement these programs and get children out of orphanages and into loving families. The programs include recruiting, evaluating, and training foster families; assisting with child placement; and providing meaningful follow-up to families who welcome children into their homes. In nuevo leon, mexico, and mae sot, thailand, we work through partnerships to ensure more children have the opportunity to grow up in loving families.
$520,250 spentof which $312,557 as grants84% of program spendingExpansion projects: we look for opportunities to start foster care where it does not currently exist, to expand family-style care for orphans, and to partner with the governments to implement these programs helping to get children out of orphanages and into loving families.
$40,171 spentof which $24,010 as grants$-1 earned by the program6% of program spendingUs awareness: we believe good-hearted individuals are unknowingly supporting and funding an orphan care structure that is damaging children and breaking up families. We look for opportunities to promote a better way of orphan care to faith communities in the u.s. In order to redefine the standard of orphan care and generate more momentum for the family care movement around the world.
$48,126 spent8% of program spendingWe have established programs in cambodia in southeast asia, focusing on reintegration and prevention.
$12,693 spentof which $12,693 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $621,240.
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 2017 to 2018, from $254k to $385k (+51%).
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 5% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE HOPE EFFECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $232 → $40k.
9 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 EFFECT’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 EFFECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 EFFECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 40% · 2023 35% — 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
50% of THE HOPE EFFECT's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
93% of THE HOPE EFFECT'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k 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 EFFECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE HOPE EFFECT
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 Arizona
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
95%
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 EFFECT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOPE EFFECT?
- THE HOPE EFFECT (Arizona) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,835 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($97,602). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HOPE EFFECT have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $225,835 in grants to THE HOPE EFFECT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOPE EFFECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $97,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOPE EFFECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 14 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