Mississippi · Nonprofit
TOGETHER FOR HOPE
TOGETHER FOR HOPE (Mississippi) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,181,250 to it, the largest being Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation ($450,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $788k
What Together for Hope does
Mission
The mission of Together for Hope is to end persistent rural poverty in the united states of america.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In many ways, 2025 left a high-water mark on the banks of our reservoir.at the national level, we hosted our annual meeting in decatur, ga; health summits across the southeast; screened our documentary rising hope around the united states and abroad (new canaan, ct; st. Louis, mo; dallas, tx; winston-salem, nc; decatur, ga; san jose, ca; lewisburg, pa; cleveland, ms; phnom penh, cambodia; atlanta, ga; selma, al); held our annual staff retreat in los cruces, nm; and launched hope box as a way to highlight the products of our social enterprise network. Besides this, our president toured the country and abroad speaking and lecturing about our work (jackson, ms; tulsa, ok; clinton, ms; washington dc; cal, colombia; shaw, ms; greenville, sc; oxford, ms; st. Louis, mo; and lumberton, nc). We were also able to produce a 14-page glossy that describes the work that we do in counties of persistent rural poverty in the united states.Together for Hope (tfh) galvanized the black belt region around building a house in fitzgerald, ga, and helping a family of four become homeowners. Rachel gunter shapard, our vp for the black belt, called this program "together we build and it has become our…
$707,440 spentof which $13,953 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $707,440.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $644k to $874k (+36%).
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.
99% of TOGETHER FOR HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Travis Lowe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $505k.
From the IRS filings of TOGETHER FOR 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
TOGETHER FOR HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 TOGETHER FOR HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
TOGETHER FOR HOPE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 5 states 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
TOGETHER FOR HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TOGETHER FOR 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOGETHER FOR 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 TOGETHER FOR HOPE?
- TOGETHER FOR HOPE (Mississippi) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,181,250 to it, the largest being Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation ($450,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOGETHER FOR HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,181,250 in grants to TOGETHER FOR HOPE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOGETHER FOR HOPE?
- Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOGETHER FOR HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 7 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