Missouri · Nonprofit
THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION
THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $110,429 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE A BATES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($110,429). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $83k
What The Hope Light Foundation does
Mission
The primary purpose of the Foundation is to communicate cancer awareness information on all cancers in Illinois and Missouri to educate the general public and providers on all cancers signs and symptoms to promote early cancer detection and survivorship. Our primary focus is on rural and medically underserved communities with healthcare professional shortages. Our research includes identifying, evaluating and documenting cancer new case and death rates along with demographic and socioeconomic information to determine where to target outreach and awareness education in communities with the greatest need for help to fight cancer. We also maintain the Metropolis Lighthouse "Hope Light" that is the worlds only lighthouse designed, built and dedicated to the fight against cancer with a symbolic purpose to guide people to the Hope Light website to obtain cancer signs and symptoms with the hope of detecting cancer early when it is easier to treat and survive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Worked with the University of Chicago Medicine and four local health departments to facilitate learning experiences that enabled healthcare workers to obtain knowledge, develop new skills and improve Hepatitis B disease awareness and prevention and conduct colorectal cancer (CRC) screenings. More than 1500 residents were reached through this program.
$260 spentof which $50,000 as grants15% of program spendingWorked with University of Chicago Medicine and Cass County Health Department to develop and deploy a Flu/FIT program to increase CRC screening rates at flu vaccine events and other outreach activities. The program included encouraging event participants to take a Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kit home and return a stool sample to the Health Department for analysis and results follow-up. More than 500 residents participated in this program.
$145 spentof which $10,000 as grants8% of program spendingHeld our third annual Cancer Warriors Walk for Hope (CWWH) Health Resources Fair in Metropolis, Illinois in October. More than 200 residents attended.
$1,325 spent77% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,730.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $189k to $133k (−30%).
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.
100% of THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.
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
THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION: 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 LIGHT FOUNDATION?
- THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $110,429 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE A BATES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($110,429). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $110,429 in grants to THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION?
- THE GEORGE A BATES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,429 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOPE LIGHT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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