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GIVING HOPE & HELP INC

EIN 47-2005923 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2024
$430,442
Expenses 2024
$497,062

Program services were 77.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P50
Classification
1200
Street
2928 E 29TH ST

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 · 2024

Mission

Giving Hope and Help mission is to support domestic violence survivors, provide essential resources to end period poverty, empower college bound and nontraditional students and inspire cancer patients, lifting all those we serve to live their best life.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Giving Hope and Help mission is to support domestic violence survivors, provide essential resources to end period poverty, empower college bound and non-traditional students and inspire cancer patients, lifting all those we serve to live their best life.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $229,846

  • The Education is Your Passport Program provides educational and financial assistance for students from Pre-K through adult college learners. Its annual scholarship initiative, the Education is Your Passport Scholarship Program, supports underserved high school seniors and non-traditional college-bound students. In 2024, the program awarded 18 college scholarships, including five cash scholarships totaling $10,000. All recipients received a backpack filled with supplies, a laptop, a bed-in-a-bag set, and other college essentials. In total, Giving Hope and Help (GH&H) provided over $60,000 in cash, resources, and in-kind donations to scholarship recipients. Since the program's inception, a total of 159 scholarships have been awarded. In 2004, GH&H hosted its annual Operation Backpack event in partnership with the City of Kansas City, Missouri. The event was a major success, distributing approximately 3,000 backpacks with school supplies and online hotspot access. Additional distributions included 70 tablets, 10,000 period products, gun locks, hand sanitizers, masks, toiletries, and food-benefiting over 700 families in the community.

    Expenses $113,107

  • In 2023, Giving Hope & Help (GH&H) launched "A Way of Escape from Domestic Violence," a life-saving initiative designed to equip, empower, and provide women with the means to escape domestic violence and live free from abuse. The program offers financial assistance and resources to help women with transportation, rent, and utilities, supporting their transition to safety and stability. In 2024, GH&H assisted 30 women through this initiative, helping them build new lives free from violence. The majority of these women were directly referred by domestic violence agencies across Missouri, demonstrating GH&H's strong partnerships and deep commitment to breaking the cycle of abuse

    Expenses $20,836

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $19,293

As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jessica L McClellan

    Founder and President (non-voting)

    Total calculated
    $108,000
    From this org
    $108,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Felissa Johnson

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • O Renee Sutherland

    Board Secretary ending 8/12/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jacqueline Braswell

    Board Secretary starting 8/13/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin E McClellan

    Board Member (non-voting)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Frances Marie Spearman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stacey Koenig

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jill Hays

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lindsay St Germain

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $430,442
    Expenses
    $497,062
    Contributions
    $457,198
    Grants paid
    $250,334
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $375,297
    Expenses
    $261,227
    Contributions
    $408,315
    Grants paid
    $98,944
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $249,626
    Expenses
    $177,708
    Contributions
    $255,904
    Grants paid
    $74,038

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
    $166,490
    Expenses
    $146,278
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,006

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $87,379
    Expenses
    $95,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,723

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Jessica Lynn McClellan
Mailing address
2928 East 29th StreetKansas City MO 64128
Website
www.givinghopeandhelp.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.