Wisconsin · Nonprofit
WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC
WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,570 to it, the largest being RALPH EVINRUDE FOUNDATION INC ($95,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $273k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Word of Hope Ministries Inc does
Mission
Provide supportive services to the community including social services, employment, health care, literacy, AODA, computer skills and small business development
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outpatient substance use treatment including anger mangement, cognitiv behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, and relapse prevention, serving adults and young adults
$98,066 spent44% of program spendingCommunity Development Block Grant is used to work with unemployed and underemployed individuals who are returning from incarceration, have been displaced or are struggling to find employment due to social or economic barriers.
$61,911 spentof which $36,585 as grants28% of program spendingSocial services and healthcare screen and referrals in partnership with MCW
$24,306 spentof which $31,239 as grants11% of program spendingDiverse business development programs provide training and support for smal and new businesses.
$37,628 spentof which $70,025 as grants17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $221,911.
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 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $237k (+282%).
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: 2017 82% · 2018 48% · 2019 16% · 2020 36% · 2021 22% · 2022 70% · 2023 93% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $31k → $3k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES 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
WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 53% · 2019 59% · 2020 80% · 2021 45% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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
WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC's revenue fell 50% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES 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 WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC?
- WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,570 to it, the largest being RALPH EVINRUDE FOUNDATION INC ($95,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $272,570 in grants to WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC?
- RALPH EVINRUDE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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