Minnesota · Nonprofit
Write to Hope
Write to Hope (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being THE BUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Write to Hope does
Mission
Write to Hope provides creative writing workshops for incarcerated individuals in Minnesota county jails. Through guided sessions led by trained volunteers participants engage in poetry journaling storytelling and reflective writing that encourage self expression personal growth emotional healing and human connection. The organization recruits and supports volunteer facilitators develops partnerships with correctional facilities and works to expand access to rehabilitative writing programs for incarcerated men and women throughout Minnesota.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided ongoing theraputicwriting reflective journaling workshops for incarcerated men and women in Minnesota correctional and county jail facilities. Programs supported literacy emotional wellness self expression and personal growth through regular facilitated sessions and volunteer instruction.
$20,322 spent47% of program spendingExpanded volunteer led educational programming by recruiting training and coordinating writing instructors and community volunteers to facilitate workshops in correctional settings and underserved communities.
$20,322 spent47% of program spendingPublished and distributed Mindful Writing From the County Jail, a collection of participant writings and artwork created through Write to Hope programming amplifying incarcerated voices and encouraging continued reflective writing and artistic expression
$2,310 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,954.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Melissa Martinez
Executive Director
Board chair
Dennis Kelly
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 Write to 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
Write to Hope leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
“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
Write to Hope draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
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
Write to Hope runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Write to 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 Minnesota
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Write to Hope?
- Write to Hope (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being THE BUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Write to Hope have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,000 in grants to Write to Hope.
- Who is the largest funder of Write to Hope?
- THE BUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Write to Hope find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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