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The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc

The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,590 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($183,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$794k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$483k
Net assets
$303k
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc does

Mission

ReCity Network exists to build capacity for nonprofits and mission-driven businesses by providing shared space and services that lead to shared impact.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided shared space and services to build capacity for nonprofits and mission-driven business

    $217,426 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $217,426.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($351k) Expenses 100 ($334k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2018 Revenue 113 ($395k) Expenses 107 ($357k) Net assets 814 ($80k)2019 Revenue 68 ($239k) Expenses 67 ($225k) Net assets 925 ($91k)2021 Revenue 135 ($473k) Expenses 133 ($445k) Net assets 1066 ($104k)2023 Revenue 29 ($102k) Expenses 30 ($100k) Net assets 515 ($51k)2024 Revenue 3 ($11k) Expenses 54 ($181k) Net assets -1720 ($-168571)2025 Revenue 227 ($794k) Expenses 96 ($319k) Net assets 3090 ($303k)
2017201820192021202320242025
Revenue (227)Expenses (96)Net assets (3090)Peer revenue range

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 $238k to $624k (+162%).

$14k
$162k
$194k
$131k
$140k
$238k
$624k
2017201820192021202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

105% of The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
$38k
’18
$15k
’19
$28k
’21
$2k
’23
−$170k
’24
$476k
’25
2.4
months of
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

Kenneth F Hill Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201820192021202320242025
Listed101288588
Joined·+8+0··+5+0
No longer listed·64··20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $30.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 Project Live Love Serve Inc’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 Project Live Love Serve Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% 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

88% 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 Project Live Love Serve Inc.

38%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 80% · 2019 48% · 2020 72% · 2021 43% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

14% of The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

85% of The Hope Project Live Love Serve 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 $73k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

CA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $410k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin60% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like The Hope Project Live Love Serve 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 25%Fundraising 7%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

58%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc?
The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,590 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($183,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $482,590 in grants to The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $183,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Hope Project Live Love Serve Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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