Tennessee · Nonprofit
THEHOPELINE INC
THEHOPELINE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,101,979 to it, the largest being KINGDOM CAPITAL FUND ($1,016,821). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Thehopeline Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to reach, rescue and restore those who are broken and hopeless. We encourage people in the midst of their struggles by providing clear thinking and right values. This is accomplished through media of all types which are primarily served from the organization's proprietary web- based platform.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Live Chat interactions are taken by paid Hope Coaches who are trained and evaluated on a regular basis for effectiveness. Live Chat was relaunched in 2018 with new leadership and funded from gifts restricted for use to this program. It was staffed with an average of 369 Hope Coach hours per week. Each one-on-one interaction included referrals to one or more vetted partners who offer targeted services or relevant information for specific issues. The Organization has more than 25 of these partnerships. Hope Coaches have answered 27,435 chats, which is 35% of all chats attempted. Beginning in September 2022, Live Chat was expanded to 24/7. By the end of 2025, there were 40 Hope Coaches who answered 31,823 live chats, which is 70% of all live chat attempts. 3,589 (11.3%) of this total were suicide interventions.
$2,180,766 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,180,766.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $4.1M (+28%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THEHOPELINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Tim Altman
President & CEO
Board chair
Joel David Johnson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $839k → $109k.
13 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 THEHOPELINE 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
THEHOPELINE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 THEHOPELINE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 44% · 2019 52% · 2020 48% · 2021 43% · 2022 39% · 2023 40% — 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
67% of THEHOPELINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
54% of THEHOPELINE 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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THEHOPELINE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THEHOPELINE 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 22 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THEHOPELINE INC: 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 THEHOPELINE INC?
- THEHOPELINE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,101,979 to it, the largest being KINGDOM CAPITAL FUND ($1,016,821). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THEHOPELINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,101,979 in grants to THEHOPELINE INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEHOPELINE INC?
- KINGDOM CAPITAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,016,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEHOPELINE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing