Michigan · Nonprofit
WORDS OF HOPE INC
WORDS OF HOPE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,353,382 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,329,900). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Sterk Family Marantha Foundationportfolio match
- Sawyer Foundation Charitable Trportfolio match
- Mlp Charitable Trustportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WORDS OF HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
WORDS OF HOPE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
76% of WORDS OF HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
WORDS OF HOPE INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 10 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Sterk Family Marantha Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sawyer Foundation Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mlp Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert C Englin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Poole Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Luanne and Dan Chefetz Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abel Family Legacy Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Ralph G Frick Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Biel Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indianapolis Center for Congregations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Food Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WORDS OF HOPE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORDS OF HOPE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WORDS OF HOPE INC?
- WORDS OF HOPE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,353,382 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,329,900). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORDS OF HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,353,382 in grants to WORDS OF HOPE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORDS OF HOPE INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,329,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORDS OF HOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024, and the filings of 31funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing