Alabama · Nonprofit
THE SOUND OF HOPE
THE SOUND OF HOPE (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,446 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($144,767). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $15k
What The Sound of Hope does
Mission
Form 990EZ , Part III - The Sound of Hope exists to raise funds and awareness for orphans and vulnerable children around the world. We are committed to helping children break out of the cycle of poverty by partnering with programs that offer holistic care. We seek to educate, engage, and empower others to join the movement in creative ways. We want to empower you to be a voice for the cause. We want your voice to be the sound of hope. Whoever you are, whatever you do - you have value. We believe you can make a difference; just as we believe every child in the world has value, and every child has the potential to change the world. It's why we exist - not just to rescue these desperate children out of poverty and disease, but to give them the hope and the future they deserve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
India According to UNICEF, there are more than 31 million orphans in India. Orphans and vulnerable children in this country are often kidnapped and sold into prostitution, slavery or murdered for organ harvesting. Impoverished children are also at risk of malnutrition and diseases like leprosy and HIV/AIDS. Little girls are especially in danger in India. 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month, while thousands of others are killed or abandoned at birth. The Sound of Hope financially supported one children's home in this country during 2024 - a total of 17 kids have been rescued. These children come from the streets, slums, brothels and leper colonies. Once safely in our homes, these little boys and girls are quickly accepted into their new family. In addition to meeting their basic needs of food, clothing, and a safe home; they receive an education, mentoring and medical care. In cooperation with our native partners, the Sound of Hope works to equip these children to break out of the cycle of poverty and rise above their circumstances.
$7,342 spentof which $8,841 as grants50% of program spendingThailand is home to a multi-BILLION dollar sex-industry. One Thailand agency reports that 40% of sex-trafficking victims are children. In response to this tragic dilemma, The Sound of Hope bought and established a girl's home in Masariang, The Promised Land was purchased in 2011. After two years of renovations and preparations, our native Thai partners welcomed in 8 young girls in 2013. These children were rescued out of impoverished situations from the surrounding mountain villages. It's girls just like these who are at the greatest risk to be kidnapped and forced to work in the sex-industry. We currently have 5 girls living in the home. The Sound of Hope funding covers medical needs, school fees, and technology to assist with education. Over the last eleven years our organization has also invested in self-sustaining projects like fish ponds, frog ponds and livestock. These investments have helped to offset monthly food costs. Additionally during the time we have supported the home, some of our girls have moved on from high school to university. We had two girls in particular finish their nursing degrees and are now working in the medical field. We have seen many lives changed…
$7,341 spentof which $14,600 as grants50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,683.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11k to $15k (+29%).
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 SOUND OF HOPE’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ericka Jackson
Board Member - Executive Director
Board chair
Beth Sewell
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $27k → $9k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SOUND OF HOPE’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 SOUND OF HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SOUND OF HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 53% · 2020 56% · 2021 75% · 2022 73% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE SOUND OF HOPE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $614 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 SOUND OF HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE SOUND OF HOPE
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 Alabama
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 SOUND OF HOPE: 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 SOUND OF HOPE?
- THE SOUND OF HOPE (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,446 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($144,767). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SOUND OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $192,446 in grants to THE SOUND OF HOPE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SOUND OF HOPE?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $144,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SOUND OF HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 4 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