About Hopelab Foundation
Hopelab Foundation concentrates its philanthropy on expanding access to youth mental health services, primarily by funding innovative, scalable providers that serve underserved young people in the U.S. Its giving is mission-focused and execution-oriented, supporting organizations that aim to expand service capacity and reach. The foundation appears to prioritize measurable impact on adolescent mental health equity rather than a broad portfolio across issues or geographies.
Focus Areas
Youth mental health access for underserved communities in the United StatesDigital and scalable mental health service models for adolescentsCapacity expansion and program scaling for mental health nonprofits
Who They Fund
underserved young people in the United Statesadolescents / teenagers (including at-risk youth)Black youth (explicit equity focus)youth-serving organizations and communities (capacity recipients)
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated — very large, targeted grants to a single core grantee (repeat funding), focused on scaling service delivery rather than distributing many small awards.
About Hopelab Foundation
A single recipient appears twice at the top of Hopelab Foundation Inc’s recent grant list: Mindright Health Inc received $1,265,000 in 2024 and $1,264,667 in 2025 to expand mental health services for underserved young people in the United States. That pattern captures the foundation’s emphasis on youth mental health access, especially for organizations built to reach adolescents at scale. The grants also show a second thread in the foundation’s work: support for research and program models that translate into practical services, from the science of purpose to direct-to-teen research platforms. Hopelab Foundation Inc backs both service providers and intermediaries, pairing large operating-style awards with targeted investments in research and infrastructure. Its portfolio includes grants to organizations in mental health, responsible technology, and youth wellbeing, with several awards tied to initiatives meant to strengthen capacity, coordination, and evidence generation. Across the recent grants, the foundation favors U.S.-based recipients and gives repeatedly to organizations working with underserved youth, Black youth, and youth-serving networks that can carry models into broader use.
What Hopelab Foundation Funds
Youth mental health access is the clearest throughline. Hopelab Foundation Inc gave $1,264,667 to Mindright Health Inc in 2025 for mental health programs serving underserved young people in the United States, and $85,000 to NORC- National Opinion Research Center for a mental health survey. The foundation also funds research infrastructure: it awarded $100,000 to Characterlab for a direct-to-teen research platform focused on youth voices and needs, and $75,000 to the Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles for research on the human transcriptional response to major depression. A third area is youth development through purpose and civic identity. Hopelab gave $250,000 to Griptape to advance and apply the science of purpose to youth programming, then followed with another $76,000 to the same grantee for the same purpose. It also supports responsible technology and youth power through grants tied to that initiative.
How Hopelab Foundation Gives
Hopelab Foundation Inc’s recent grants cluster around a typical size of $31,250 at the 25th percentile, a $50,000 median, and $100,000 at the 75th percentile. The distribution is wider at the top because the foundation also makes seven-figure awards for scaled service delivery. The same grantee can appear in multiple years, as shown by repeat grants to Mindright Health Inc and Griptape. The foundation is a regular funder, and it also makes program-related investments. Its active programs include both unsolicited and non-unsolicited tracks; the Early Career Research Grant and Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund accept unsolicited applications, while the Young Leaders Advisory Grant Program and HBCU Translational Science Fellowship do not.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$4.4M
Total Assets
$27.3M
Total Revenue
$26.3M
Total Expenses
$17.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $31K and $100K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$31K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$100K
Geographic Reach
National20 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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