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BOOK FOR HOPE INC

EIN 47-2899914 PADUCAH, KY

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Revenue 2025
$250,355
Expenses 2025
$332,569

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
22 BARRINGTON CIR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE MISSION OF BOOK FOR HOPE, INC. IS TO RAISE CHILDHOOD CANCER AWARENESS, FINANCIALLY ASSIST FAMILIES IN KENTUCKY, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, AND NORTHERN TENNESSEE WITH A CHILD ACTIVELY IN CANCER TREATMENT AND TO DONATE TO CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH.

  • PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES WITH A CHILD ACTIVELY UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT. RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT CHILDHOOD CANCER AND CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS CRITICAL CANCER RESEARCH.

    Expenses $332,569 · Grants $233,731

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gaylon Hayden

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $58,000
    From this org
    $58,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Crystal Ballard

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Josh Gray

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Eric Hayden

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Trish Estes

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Earl Davis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Corey Howard

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Hicks

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $250,355
    Expenses
    $332,569
    Contributions
    $85,386
    Grants paid
    $233,731
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $250,788
    Expenses
    $246,303
    Contributions
    $67,684
    Grants paid
    $144,184
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $263,568
    Expenses
    $129,617
    Contributions
    $61,624
    Grants paid
    $81,715
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $296,642
    Expenses
    $115,816
    Contributions
    $296,642
    Grants paid
    $28,133

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $156,633
    Expenses
    $68,719
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,718

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $87,332
    Expenses
    $34,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,804

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $47,580
    Expenses
    $35,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,783

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Gaylon Hayden
Mailing address
22 Barrington CirclePaducah KY 42003

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.