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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by SOWING HOPE FOUNDATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$818,958
Total expenses
$308,443
Contributions and grants received
$615,715
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$173,250
Investment income
$21,777
Other revenue
$8,216
Total assets, end of year
$3,873,331
Total liabilities, end of year
$169,057
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,704,274
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$265,199
Management and general expenses
$32,382
Fundraising expenses
$10,862
Program service expenses (Part III)
$265,199

Program services were 86.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $615,715

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $33,377

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Poverty awareness fees

    total $173,250 · related or exempt $173,250

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $21,777 · excluded $21,777

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Miscellaneous

    total $8,216 · related or exempt $8,216

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $8,216

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $42,750 · program services $21,375 · management and general $21,375

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $4,130 · program services $2,065 · management and general $2,065

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $2,100 · management and general $2,100

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $2,808 · program services $2,808

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,829 · fundraising $2,829

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $9,529 · program services $675 · management and general $2,229 · fundraising $6,625

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $3,403 · management and general $3,127 · fundraising $276

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $117,089 · program services $117,089

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,915 · management and general $1,023 · fundraising $892

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $240 · fundraising $240

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $107,696 · program services $107,696

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $4,448 · program services $4,232 · management and general $216

  • 24a · Other expenses: Other supplies

    total $9,506 · program services $9,259 · management and general $247

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $66,655 · end of year $172,602

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $428,950 · end of year $661,529

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $67,550

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $432

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $3,781,923

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $748,356

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $2,561,511 · end of year $3,033,567

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $135,456 · end of year $5,633

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    end of year $145,557

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $23,500

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $88,000

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,172,554 · end of year $3,704,274

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To raise awareness of poverty conditions around the world and to serve as a voice advocating for the global impoverished community, aiming to foster a heightened sense of compassion for individuals ensnared in the cycles of destitution.

  • SHF provides facilities where individuals and groups can gather to learn about poverty-related conditions around the world. SHF also offers educational resources on the causes and effects of poverty and disseminates information on ways individuals can become involved in efforts to alleviate poverty. In addition, SHF provides information about charitable organizations whose programs assist individuals living in destitute conditions and who have little opportunity to earn a livable wage.

    Expenses $265,199 · Revenue $173,250

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Travis Hess

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Trent Eikenberry

    At large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gary Bayer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Galen Brubaker

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Greg Shellabarger

    At large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
3 September 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202642469349301184

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