Hope for the Fatherless

Analysis

Hope for the Fatherless is a registered charity in United States, based in Castle Pines, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Hope for the Fatherless reported income of $337k and spending of $285k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $190k to $337k (+77%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Hope for the Fatherless sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Africa Schoolhouse Foundation ($337k), Malawi Project Inc ($338k) and Glocal Ventures Inc ($337k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $249k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $249k.