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Hopelab Foundation Inc. is a private corporation based in SAN FRANCISCO, CA. The foundation received its IRS ruling in 2002. It holds total assets of $27.3M. Annual income is reported at $39.2M. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES RELATED TO IMPROVING MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF YOUNG PEOPLEHopelab continued its programmatic efforts to support the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC young people. Pivoting away from product development, Hopelab focused efforts on relationship-building, convening researchers, philanthropists, investors, and young people at an intergenerational retreat focused on improving youth mental health outcomes. In August, The Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund granted $1.8 Million in pooled funding to 26 youth-led initiatives dedicated to building a more inclusive, equitable, and accountable technology ecosystem. The Young Innovators in Behavioral Health Awards, a program created in partnership with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute and Going Digital Behavioral Health, recognized 30 winners for their contributions to access, awareness, and advancement of digital mental health care for young people in the U.S. According to available records, Hopelab Foundation Inc. has made 41 grants totaling $2.4M, with a median grant of $36K. Annual giving has grown from $504K in 2020 to $920K in 2022. Grantmaking activity was highest in 2021 with $965K distributed across 11 grants. Individual grants have ranged from $5K to $330K, with an average award of $58K. The foundation has supported 35 unique organizations. The foundation primarily supports organizations in New York, Washington, California, which account for 61% of all grants. Grantmaking reaches organizations across 11 states. Contributions to this foundation are tax-deductible.
INVESTMENTSHopelab's expanded its external investments initiative to invest in and partner with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and innovators who are similarly committed to improving the health and well-being of teens and young adults. This capability allowed for the flexibility to support both for-profit and nonprofit teams dedicated to scaling social impact. Hopelab is also interested in making investments where Hopelab can add value by leveraging the expertise of our social innovation lab, which is staffed by researchers, strategists, and designers with unparalleled expertise in developing products that young people will find meaningful and want to use, can be widely distributed, and will measurably improve health outcomes. The initial areas of focus for investments are: to improve mental health and well-being of teens and young adults, to improve health of LGBTQ+ teens and young adults, and to improve health of underserved, low-income, and/or BIPOC teens and young adults.
Expenses: $5.9M
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES RELATED TO IMPROVING MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF LGBTQ+ TEENSHopelab continued our research and co-creation efforts to investigate the nature of resilience and its role in supporting the psychological well-being of LGBTG+ youth, who are at a significantly heightened risk for anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation and suicide. We worked with young people, academic researchers, and LGBTQ+ serving organizations to better understand the landscape and to identify ways that a digital intervention might be designed to improve the health and well-being of this population. We partnered with CenterLink and the It Gets Better Project to assist with the development and testing of a digital intervention that will be released in summer 2022.
Expenses: $3.7M
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES RELATED TO IMPROVING THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF COLLEGE STUDENTSHopelab continued to investigate the nature of resilience and its role in supporting both psychological well-being and physical health of young adults. In 2021, we continued our partnership with Grit Digital Health, an expert in college campus outreach, to scale the Nod app intervention to college campuses across the United States. Nod is a digital intervention that equips college students with science-backed skills to build satisfying social connections. Gen Z is one of the loneliest generations to date. The health impacts include higher depressive symptoms, poorer sleep quality, heightened risk of suicide and self-harm behavior. A randomized controlled trial conducted with 221 first-year college students over four weeks, in 2020, found that Nod prevented loneliness and depression among those students most at risk at the start of the year.
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES RELATED TO IMPROVING MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF YOUNG PEOPLEHopelab continued its programmatic efforts to support the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC young people. Pivoting away from product development, Hopelab focused efforts on relationship-building, convening researchers, philanthropists, investors, and young people at an intergenerational retreat focused on improving youth mental health outcomes. In August, The Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund granted $1.8 Million in pooled funding to 26 youth-led initiatives dedicated to building a more inclusive, equitable, and accountable technology ecosystem. The Young Innovators in Behavioral Health Awards, a program created in partnership with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute and Going Digital Behavioral Health, recognized 30 winners for their contributions to access, awareness, and advancement of digital mental health care for young people in the U.S. Based on available records, the foundation has funded 41 grants. Its grantmaking reaches organizations primarily in NY, WA, CA.
Hopelab Foundation Inc. has distributed a total of $2.4M across 41 grants. The median grant size is $36K, with an average of $58K. Individual grants have ranged from $5K to $330K.
Hopelab Foundation Inc. typically selects its grantees rather than accepting unsolicited proposals.
Hopelab Foundation Inc. is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, CA. While based in CA, the foundation distributes grants to organizations across 11 states.
| Name | Title | Compensation | Benefits | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Laws | President | $620K | $55K | $675K |
| Jaspal Sandhu | Secretary | $304K | $67K | $371K |
| Nathan Jayappa | Treasurer | $222K | $59K | $281K |
| Kim Bright | Treasurer | $165K | $44K | $209K |
| Wizdom Powell | Board Member | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Total Giving
$15.7M
Total Assets
$19M
Fair Market Value
$19M
Net Worth
$15M
Grants Paid
$3.5M
Contributions
$2.4M
Net Investment Income
$608K
Distribution Amount
$0
Total: $0
Total Grants
41
Total Giving
$2.4M
Average Grant
$58K
Median Grant
$36K
Unique Recipients
35
Most Common Grant
$25K
of 2022 grantees were first-time recipients
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell UniversityFunding towards the incubation and development of the Purpose Commons initiative, with the ultimate goal of bringing the science of purpose to youth-serving organizations & other stakeholders | Ithaca, NY | $150K | 2022 |
| Seattle FoundationHopelab joined the FAST pooled fund collaborative (Funders for Adolescent Science Translation) | Seattle, WA | $110K | 2022 |
| CharacterlabSupport for exploring a new direct-to-teen research platform to advance research on essential topics for youth in a setting that prioritizes the voices and needs of young people. | Philadelphia, PA | $100K | 2022 |
| CenterlinkMaintenance and marketing of IMI | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $100K | 2022 |
Expenses: $1.4M
TEEN VAPING CESSATION AND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT Hopelab is engaged in a portfolio of work to support teen vaping cessation. We are developing an approach to vaping cessation that leverages our in-house expertise, core competencies in behavioral science and design, and practice of co-creating with teens to ensure a first-hand understanding of the vaping cessation experience. With youth vaping as a significant public health concern-including its implications for physical health, mental health, an COVID-associated risks-leveraging technology can be an important strategy to help support and promote healthy behaviors among young people. Social media can deliver engaging intervention material directly to teens in a medium that is already deeply integrated into their lives. Hopelab, in collaboration with the American Heart Association, developed a resource guide, called Talk Vaping With Your Teen, to help parents and caregivers have informed, productive, and nuanced conversations.
Expenses: $648K
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| Jeffrey R Alvord | Board Chair | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Pamela K Omidyar | Board Member | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Eric Langshur | Board Member | $0 | $0 | $0 |
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| Ksana Health IncWorking with diverse at-risk adolescents using health-equity-informed implementation science methods. Optimizing feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness for youth, in particular Black youth, using leading implementation science frameworks and capitalizing on research team's expertise in implementation science and qualitative methods. |
| Eugene, OR |
| $75K |
| 2022 |
| Hopelab - Youth Power FundHopelab contribution to a pooled fund, with 13 other funders, called the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund. The fund has made grants to youth and intergenerationally led organizations shaping the responsible technology movement. | San Francisco, CA | $50K | 2022 |
| Race SpaceBuilding a web-based tool focused on reducing depression and suicidality resulting from racial discrimination by increasing psychoeducation about race and racism (e.g., racial socialization competency). | Menlo Park, CA | $50K | 2022 |
| Css VenturesAskYalda is a web-based application that integrates the power of natural language processing and machine learning with the subject matter expertise of CSS. It provides an avenue into the large and rapidly expanding corpus of social science data that traditionally takes the form of tens of thousands of academic papers about child and adolescent development and psychology. AskYalda will instantly deliver clearly-worded insights from academic research through a user-friendly interface that is searc | Pacific Palisades, CA | $50K | 2022 |
| Livebetter CorpThe purpose of the grant is support Koko's mission to ensure that no one in emotional distress online goes without help. They partner with large online networks to reach users where they are by embedding their digital services directly into the platform that millions of people use each day, so that everyone can have free, instant access to evidence based mental well-being interventions. | New York, NY | $40K | 2022 |
| Alameda Family ServicesStudy hypothesizes that protective factors increase resilience and reduce emotional distress levels. Screening that solicits data on lagging or absent protective factors can inform mental health services. When these protective factors are strengthened through treatment, subjective distress levels decrease. | Alameda, CA | $40K | 2022 |
| Geo Grantmakers For Effective OrganizationsPhilanthropic culture & practice to support thriving non profits and communities | Washington, DC | $25K | 2022 |
| Rock Health FoundationTo support Rock Health.org, which brings together innovators, entrepreneurs and investors from across the US interested in supporting health care access and equity. Through this grant we supported Rock Health's work on the report "Building Towards Equity, A working model for digital health." | San Francisco, CA | $25K | 2022 |
| Rescue Agency Public BenefitThe purpose of the grant is to enhance the Quit the Hit ("QTH") website to increase the appeal of the QTH program, streamline the registration and data collection process and ultimately enrich the lives of young people across the country, consistent with the charitable purposes for which QTH was developed, namely to provide an innovation solution for teen vaping cessation. | San Diego, CA | $21K | 2022 |
| The Brigham And Women'S HospitalExamining the role of psychological safety in youth mental health by conducting a synthesis of existing literature across multiple disciplines, identifying measures that may be necessary to conduct this research, and meeting with youth to discuss and identify where there are gaps in the scientific literature | Boston, MA | $17K | 2022 |
| President And Fellows Of Harvard CollegeExamining the role of psychological safety in youth mental health by conducting a synthesis of existing literature across multiple disciplines, identifying measures that may be necessary to conduct this research, and meeting with youth to discuss and identify where there are gaps in the scientific literature | Cambridge, MA | $16K | 2022 |
| Hlt Impact FoundationHopelab contribution to the HLTH Techquity Iniative. The fund was used to create a benchmarking survey on techquity among healthcare leaders and to create an ethnography video examining how techquity related to the lives of children, youth and families impacted by the healthcare system. | New York, NY | $15K | 2022 |
| Panorama GlobalThe purpose of the grant is to support The Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health in response to the Covid 19 Pandemic and the effects it has had on young people. Upswing's focus is on mental health and well-being of adolescents who are of color and/or LGBTQ+ and to mobilize supoort to reach young people where they are. | Seattle, WA | $330K | 2021 |
| Acumuen Fund IncThe purpose of the grant is to support the Medicaid Innovation Collaborative. The Medicaid Innovation Collaborative (MIC) aims to catalyze and enable innovation inMedicaid that advances health equity, transforming the health and wellbeing of our most vulnerable patient populations at scale. They partner with state Medicaid programs and their managed care organizations to identify, implement, and scale innovative solutions that positively impact the health and wellbeing of their Medicaid members | New York, NY | $100K | 2021 |
| The Global Development IncubatorcitiriseThe purpose of the grant is conduct a U.S.-based, youth participatory action research (YPAR) project to explore how young people are currently engaging with mental health science. We will use this project to inform the development of a model of how young people can effectively engage with mental health science. In line with the principles of YPAR, this project will center young people's leadership in the research design, implementation, and analysis, as well as the social change informed by the | Washington, DC | $100K | 2021 |
| Trustees Of The University Of PennysylvaniaThe purpose of the gift is to support the translational impact of the project "Wellness in College Research Network" which aims to catalyze collaboration across a network of researchs committed to supporting positive youth development. | Philadelphia, PA | $49K | 2021 |
| New Venture Fundcalifornia Children'S TrustThe purpose of the grant is to support the partnership betweenCalifornia Children's Trust and New Venture Fund (NVF). They will partner with National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) to produce a primer for Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) on school-based mental health. The Primer will have input from partners such as the CA School Based Health Alliance (CSBHA), Hazel Health, and another TBD education partner. | Washington, DC | $25K | 2021 |
| Uc Regent BerkeleyThe purpose of the Grant is to support "Wellness at the Heart of Holistic Health (the "Purpose"), which is further described as "Wellness at the Heart of Holistic Health: Wellness is at the heart of holistic health. It extends beyond our physical health to incorporate many dimensions, emotional, social, environmental, financial, amongst others. The group will conduct interviews among the Fellows and create a presentation (print or video) that explores how Fung Fellows as young people define "wel | Berkely, CA | $10K | 2021 |
| University Of Oregon FoundationThe purpose of the gift is to support the translational impact of the project "Wellness in College Research Network" which aims to catalyze collaboration across a network of researchs committed to supporting positive youth development. | Eugene, OR | $7K | 2021 |
| Vjr ConsultingThe purpose of the research grant is to create a survey providing updated COVID relevant data about how young people are using digital health tools and social media during a global pandemic and period of isolation, and in particular how they use these online tools to promote their mental well-being. | San Francisco, CA | $5K | 2021 |
| Crisis TextlineGrant to support the targeted exploration of ways that big data from Crisis Text Line might be leveraged to 1) increase knowledge of the drivers of despair and resilience during a time of COVID-19 and racial crisis, and 2) more effectively target interventions and community/policy responses to help those most at risk. | New York, NY | $200K | 2020 |
| Nurse Family PartnershipAlison Kolwaite & Elly Yost - Hopelabs gift is intended to support the integration and use of the Nurse Home Visit Form and other functionality to improve the adoption and use of Goal Mama, the app that helps moms keep track of their most important goals, access parenting and pregnancy info and connect with other moms and their Nurse-FamilyPartnership nurse. | Denver, CO | $40K | 2020 |
| QtnfyGrant to develop linguistic and behavioral measures of loneliness in young adults' digital lives, in three phases: 1. Establish an Opt-in Data Program for creating and maintaining a volunteer group of AYAs. 2.Develop Quantified Measures of Loneliness from social and digital life data. 3. Design a Data Integration and Use Strategy to inform Hopelab project work. | Arlington, MD | $40K | 2020 |
| University Of Illinois FoundationResearch Dr. Chris Napolitano - recruit participants for the Our Data Helps research project. We will also focus our recruitment message towards the "social good" that participants social media data could provide in HL's continuing efforts to promote mental health and well-being in youth across the nation. | Urbana, IL | $36K | 2020 |
| University Of California San DiegoGrant to Dr. Piotr Winkielman and team for a data science project which seeks to understand whether AYAs experienced a higher degree of loneliness after the coronavirus outbreak, and whether the concept of loneliness changed across multiple waves of the pandemic. In addition, we will explore the construct of resilience in the online community in response to COVID-19. | San Diego, CA | $25K | 2020 |
| Chapel And York FoundationGrant to support the Monash University COVID-19 Outbreak Public Evaluation (COPE) Initiative research to assess public attitude, behaviors, and beliefs related to COVID-19 pandemic and health monitoring, especially to specific populations disproportionately affected by COVID-19 (young adults, Black and Latinx persons, essential workers, unpaid caregivers and persons living with disabilities or underlying health conditions). | New York, NY | $25K | 2020 |
| Gryt Health IncGrant to support efforts to increase Vivibot awareness and enhance the user experience with Vivibot, an intervention developed with a focus on the challenges and strengths of the adolescence and young adult cancer community and designed to promote psychological resilience, empowering young adults to direct their own care and support young people as they leave treatment and begin new life beyond cancer. | Rochester, NY | $25K | 2020 |
| The Milken InstituteGrant to support thought leader panel discussions on Moonshots for Teen/Young Adult Mental Well-being" yielding a summary report of "potential moonshot goals" for the mental health and well-being of young people in the US. | Santa Monica, CA | $25K | 2020 |
| Education Training And Research AssociatesGrant to support engaging a group of diverse young people from Oakland to explore how they as young people define wellness for themselves and their community. | Scotts Valley, CA | $20K | 2020 |
| Secondmuse FoundationSecond Muse believes that technology can be used as a powerful tool to improve and empower the lives of young people, when built with intention. This grant was used to support the production of a video of BIPOC and Queer youth discussing the transformative ways technology can build health into their everyday lives, including how digital wellness can start with technology that fosters creativity, self-care, body positivity and agency to transform the world around them. | Lake Oswego, OR | $15K | 2020 |
| Character LabGeneral operating support for the organizations valuable mission which is to provide mental health awareness and education for young adults. | Philadelphia, PA | $10K | 2020 |
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