Talk:Hopewell Fund

Requesting infobox edits

As this is my first post here, a little introduction: My name is Jonathan and I'm the chief of staff at the Hopewell Fund. I'm here to make requests on behalf of the organization. I added a connected contributor banner to the top of this page to fully disclose my conflict of interest. Per Wikipedia guidelines, I will only make talk page requests and not edit directly.

I have three initial requested updates for the infobox:

1. Adding a Key people line and including Hopewell's President, Anna Brower (suggested citation)
2. Updating the Revenue per the most recent public filings to $208 million (2024) (suggested citation though the current citation also confirms this)
3. Update "Arabella Advisors" to "Sunflower Services" in the list of Affiliations, as the former dissolved and its operations now function under the latter new name. Per that cited Chronicle of Philanthropy article, Sixteen Thirty Fund and North Fund should be removed from the list, as there's no longer any relationship between these organizations and Hopewell Fund.

Are these updates possible?

JB at Hopewell Fund (talk) 18:09, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

• @JB at Hopewell Fund:: Regarding #1, the link doesn't work. #2, I updated the number and left the ProPublica citation. #3, I added Sunflower Services to the affiliations list but did not remove Sixteen Thirty Fund and North Fund because the Chronicle of Philanthropy article is behind a paywall so I can't confirm that info. I could confirm the rebranding to Sunflower based on what little I can see from the CoP article plus sources used on Arabella Advisors. APK hi :-) (talk) 21:46, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

  Apologies for those citation errors, APK. The Hopewell Fund website is being updated, so some of the content has moved recently. Regarding Anna Bower, this Who We Are page confirms that she "has served as the inaugural president of Hopewell Fund since September 2025." (You can also see me on this page if you want to put a face to a handle.) The aforementioned Chronicle of Philanthropy article also identifies her as president. The exact quote, which I included in the updated citation, is "Anna Bower, president of the Hopewell Fund, hopes Sunflower Services can provide resources to groups led by and serving marginalized communities that are usually cut off from major nonprofit institutions." Regarding Sixteen Thirty Fund and North Fund, I created a different CoP citation with a "quote" passage here that confirms that (a) Arabella has dissolved, and (b) Hopewell Fund, New Venture Fund, and Windward Fund have created a new public benefit corporation called Sunflower Services. The Hopewell Fund was previously linked to Sixteen Thirty Fund and North Fund through Arabella, which (again) no longer exists. Does that all make sense? Do these updated citations work? Thank you again for the assistance here. Really appreciate it. JB at Hopewell Fund (talk) 20:58, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for that. I went ahead and updated the page. APK hi :-) (talk) 21:19, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Many, many thanks for the assist with this, APK. I'm still getting the hang of posting here and specific feedback like you provided is extremely helpful. I'm going to have another request or two coming up and it would be great if you could look at those as well, even if it's just to tell me that I'm doing something wrong! JB at Hopewell Fund (talk) 17:58, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Possible to add Hopewell Fund logo to the infobox?

Hi again! I'd like to ask that the Hopewell Fund's official wordmark logo be added to the infobox. I've uploaded the logo to Wikimedia Commons under fair use. You can view it by following

Official workmark logo for Hopewell Fund

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I'm hoping that this is a relatively straightforward request, but please do let me know if there's anything else I need to do to complete this process! JB at Hopewell Fund (talk) 18:54, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

References

Reply 21-JUL-2026

  Edit request implemented    Spintendo  19:20, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

Request to add History section

This article currently has no sections; it's just one block of text. For comparison, the Arabella Advisors and Sixteen Thirty Fund articles both include multiple sections that discuss key developments and projects.

I think this article would benefit from such a structure, so I'd like to propose adding a History section to begin with, with additional sections to potentially follow. Such a section would help provide a more encyclopedic treatment of the Hopewell Fund by drawing on the abundant news coverage of the organization, very little of which is currently cited or summarized. The addition of a History section would also help to organize the article by arranging claims chronologically.

This proposed History section could include the following claims, all supported by news coverage citations:

Proposed History section

History

The Hopewell Fund was established in 2015. The next year, Hopewell was a fiscal sponsor of the Economic Security Project, a nonprofit co-founded by Chris Hughes that promotes guaranteed basic income. Hopewell's public grantmaking continued in 2017 with donations that included $750,000 to the Memphis Center for Reproductive Health and $125,000 to the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. That same year, Hopewell became a fiscal sponsor of the NFL Players Coalition, a non-profit advocacy group co-founded by NFL players Malcolm Jenkins and Anquan Boldin. This group was established to administer an $89 million, seven-year commitment by the National Football League toward social justice and racial equality initiatives.

From 2017 to 2019, the Hopewell Fund incubated States Newsroom, a state-focused nonprofit news organization, by providing administrative and business support. Hopewell also registered the names of multiple outlets affiliated with the States Newsroom.

In 2020, Hopewell began fiscally sponsoring the Rare Impact Fund, a mental health-focused initiative from Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty cosmetic brand. That same year, Hopewell distributed more than $127 million, and its grantmaking included major support for media, turnout, and advocacy projects associated with progressive politics. Hopewell Fund provided more than $8 million to Acronym, a progressive non-profit co-founded by Tara McGowan. The Hopewell Fund also sponsored Democracy Docket, a voting rights and media platform founded by lawyer Marc Elias, and awarded nearly $3.8 million to Family Planning Associates Medical Group, a Chicago clinic that provides abortion services, $2 million to a Tulane University fund, and $1 million to Vote Forward, a voter registration project targeting underrepresented populations.

In 2023, Hopewell launched the Heat Initiative, an advocacy group that campaigns against Apple’s end-to-end encryption, arguing it aids child exploitation. That same year, Forbes Tate Partners registered to lobby for the Hopewell Fund on the availability of Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs related to abortion care.

In September 2025, Hopewell Fund brought on Anna Brower as its inaugural president. In November 2025, Hopewell Fund, New Venture Fund, and Windward Fund created a new public benefit corporation called Sunflower Services. Sunflower Services operates as a vendor to these nonprofits, in addition to being owned and governed by them. Sunflower purchased the part of Arabella Advisors that previously serviced fiscal sponsors.

In 2026, the New York Times reported on Hopewell Fund support for ⁠States at the Core, a group providing training on how to legally and safely monitor federal ICE agents. That same year, the Hopewell Fund was a signatory on a petition asking Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, and DAFgiving360 to restore the ability of donors to make grants to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

References

Here is a paragraph-by-paragraph summary of my updates:

• The first paragraph covers the establishment of the Hopewell Fund and the organization's earliest fiscal sponsorships and public grantmaking, as documented by Inside Philanthropy, ESPN, and other cited sources. This is all new information.
• The second paragraph covers the incubation of States Newsroom. I've trimmed down the treatment of this from paragraph three in the existing article. If editors want to restore the excised commentary, that's fine, but the quotes do feel disproportionately long and only tangentially relevant.
• The third paragraph covers fiscal sponsorships and grantmaking from 2020. The ACRONYM and Democracy Docket claims are a reworded version of the current fourth paragraph. None of the other initiatives are currently mentioned in the article, despite being the subjects of extensive news coverage.
• The fourth paragraph covers 2023 developments, namely the launch of the Heat Initiative and lobbying from Forbes Tate Partners. This is all new information that pulls from prominent news coverage.
• The fifth paragraph also covers new claims, namely Anna Brower coming on as the inaugural president and the creation of Sunflower Services.
• The sixth and final paragraph covers Hopewell Fund support for States at the Core and a Southern Poverty Law Center-related petition. Once again, all of this information is new and supported by citations to prominent news coverage.

As noted above, I am the chief of staff at the Hopewell Fund. I am requesting that experienced editors review what I've put together and add the new content if they believe it makes sense to do so. I already asked APK some general questions about the ideal structure for a Wikipedia article like this one, and they suggested the Arabella article was a good example. I'm hoping that the draft I put together matches that one in quality and comprehensiveness. JB at Hopewell Fund (talk) 20:46, 28 July 2026 (UTC)