Every Orphan's Hope

What Every Orphan's Hope does

Every Orphan's Hope is a 501(c)(3) Christian nonprofit organization headquartered in Frisco, Texas, that delivers integrated care to orphaned and vulnerable children in Zambia. Founded by Gary Schneider, the organization operates a portfolio of programs that includes Baby Rescue Homes for infants, Family Homes that place orphans with widowed "Mamas," Young Adult Homes for older children, the Camp Hope residential camp, an Afterschool Academy, and the annual Orphan Sunday event. Operations are concentrated in Zambia with US-based fundraising and administrative infrastructure, and a workforce sized at 11-50 employees predominantly composed of local Zambian program staff.

The funding model combines recurring individual sponsorship (with documented tiers at $43/month for child sponsorship and $19/month for the "Baby Steps" tier), one-time donations, US church partnerships, and a planned-giving partnership with Barnabas Foundation. Two business-as-mission enterprises — Nyangwena Bakery and the Narrow Road Bike Shop — provide supplemental earned income and serve as skills-training venues for program participants. Reported revenue for fiscal year 2024-2025 totaled $1,643,572, with 88% of expenditures allocated to programs, 6% to general and administrative overhead, and 6% to fundraising, and the organization holds ECFA accreditation, Candid Platinum transparency certification, and a Charity Navigator 4-star rating.

The care model is differentiated by a documented 63.7% reunification rate of separated children with biological families or kinship placements, providing rare longitudinal outcome data in the sector. The organization is currently scaling via three concurrent growth initiatives: an expansion of Camp Hope from one to four camp sites planned for 2026, the launch of an Afterschool Academy with an associated ~$195K capital campaign, and a deliberate build-out of business-as-mission revenue. A disclosed 32% funding gap attributed to USD weakening against the Zambian Kwacha is a material funding-side headwind even as the program footprint expands.

Name

Every Orphan's Hope

Legal name

Every Orphan's Hope, Inc.

Website

https://everyorphan.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Every Orphan's Hope is a Frisco, Texas-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating integrated orphan care in Zambia — including family homes, rescue homes, Camp Hope, an Afterschool Academy, and business-as-mission ventures — funded by individual sponsors, church partners, and planned giving.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Orphan Care / Child Welfare Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Individual and Family Services (6241), Child Care Services (624410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Welfare, Foster Care & Adoption Services (BPAGAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Maternal, Child & Family Health Organizations (BPAGACAF), Early Childhood Education & Childcare Nonprofits (BPAGADAA), Youth Housing, Foster Care & Wraparound Support (Education-Linked) Nonprofits (BPAGADAO), Family & Parenting Support Services (BPAGAEAC), Family Resource Centers & Wraparound Support Services (EDACALAH)

Keywords

• Family-based orphan care
• Child sponsorship programs
• Orphan care nonprofit
• International mission services
• Business-as-mission ministries

Headquarters

HQ city

Frisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Child Sponsorship: Monthly sponsorship at $43/month per child. Each child requires 14 sponsors to meet all needs. Supports food, shelter, clothing, education, medical care, transportation, discipleship, and celebration.
2. One-Time Donations: Direct charitable donations to support rescue, care, and ministry operations. Addresses funding gaps including 32% currency fluctuation impact.
3. Baby Steps Monthly Giving: $19/month giving community for baby rescue and ongoing infant care support.
4. Planned Giving: Estate gifts, IRA charitable rollovers (up to $108,000/year for those 70.5+), charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, donor advised funds, gifts of stock and non-cash assets.
5. Business-as-Mission Enterprises: Nyangwena Bakery (operating since July 2023) producing bread, buns, and rolls. Narrow Road Bike Shop selling and repairing donated bicycles. 100% of proceeds support orphan care ministry. Provides job training for young adults.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Every Orphan's Hope provides family-based, Christ-centered orphan care in Zambia through an integrated continuum of programs: Baby Rescue Homes for crisis infant care, Family Homes led by widowed mothers for long-term family placement, Young Adult Homes supporting higher education and independent living, Camp Hope gospel camps, Orphan Sunday Zambia mobilization events, and the Afterschool Academy. The organization is funded primarily through monthly child sponsorships ($43/month), Baby Steps recurring giving ($19/month), planned giving programs, and church partner campaigns, with earned income supplemented by business-as-mission enterprises (a bakery and a bike shop).

Product overview

Every Orphan's Hope is a nonprofit organization providing family-based orphan care in Zambia through an integrated continuum of programs. The organization operates Baby Rescue Homes for crisis infant care, Family Homes led by widowed mothers for children in long-term family placement, and Young Adult Homes supporting higher education and independence. Complementary programs include Camp Hope (gospel camps reaching 600+ children), Orphan Sunday Zambia (national mobilization events), and the Afterschool Academy (academic support addressing Zambia's education crisis). The Child Sponsorship Program ($43/month) and Baby Steps Giving Community ($19/month) provide structured giving options. Business-as-mission initiatives including the Nyangwena Bakery and Narrow Road Bike Shop generate sustainable income while providing skills training. Church partnership programs offer Giving Trees, bike drives, and short-term mission trip opportunities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Bikes for Orphans: Business-as-mission initiative that collects and ships bicycles to Zambia for sale at the Narrow Road Bike Shop, providing sustainable income and teaching students business skills.
• Nyangwena Bakery
• Camp Hope
• Orphan Sunday Zambia
• Afterschool Academy

Products and services

• Baby Rescue Homes Emergency rescue homes providing round-the-clock care, medical support, and long-term family planning for abandoned or at-risk infants in Zambia. Capacity for 40 babies at a time, serving approximately 60 babies per year.
• Family Homes Christ-centered family homes led by widowed mothers where orphaned children grow up with siblings, attend school, and receive discipleship until they reach young adulthood.
• Young Adult Homes Support program for young adults pursuing higher education or vocational training. Provides life-skills training, academic support, and mentoring until they step fully into independent life.
• Camp Hope Five-day gospel camp reaching orphaned children across Zambia with the love of Jesus Christ. Rebooted in 2025 after a seven-year pause, serving 600 children per camp with plans to expand to four camps in 2026.
• Orphan Sunday Zambia Annual event mobilizing the Zambian Church to embrace its God-given call to care for orphans. Held November 2, 2025, at Woodlands Stadium in Lusaka with 7,300 orphaned children attending.
• Afterschool Academy After-school academic support facility providing student-teacher ratio of less than 1:10. Addresses Zambia's government school crisis with overcrowding. Also serves as space for Bible studies, trainings, and counseling.
• Child Sponsorship Program Monthly sponsorship program at $43/month providing orphaned children with food, shelter, clothing, education, and comprehensive care. Each child requires fourteen sponsors to meet all their needs.
• Baby Steps Giving Community Monthly giving program at $19/month providing hope and security to vulnerable babies in crisis, funding immediate needs and wrap-around support.
• Giving Tree Holiday giving program for churches to provide specific needs of orphans including baby formula, diapers, school fees, college tuition, meals, and more. Churches receive ornaments and custom landing pages.
• Nyangwena Bakery Business-as-mission bakery providing sliced bread, buns, and rolls to the Chongwe community since July 2023. 100% of proceeds return to the ministry supporting orphans.
• Narrow Road Bike Shop Bike sales and repair shop located on the Family Homes property in Chongwe. Provides sustainable income to support ministry operations while teaching students valuable business skills.
• Short-Term Mission Trips Annual mission trips to Zambia for youth teams, adults, and families to serve at Camp Hope or take vision trips to see the ministry firsthand.
• Planned Giving Estate planning options including donor-advised funds, non-cash assets, charitable rollovers, tribute gifts, gifts in a will, and lifetime income agreements through partnerships with Barnabas Foundation.

Quantifiable outcome

• 8,048 orphans impacted in 2025
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Evangelical Fellowship of ZambiacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 July 2025Collaborative partner for Orphan Sunday 2025 Homecoming event alongside Every Orphan's Hope, mobilizing churches across Zambia's diverse Christian denominational heritage.
• Barnabas FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPlanned giving partnership providing complimentary donor planning services and assistance with complex gifts including donor advised funds, charitable gift annuities, and charitable remainder trusts. Helps supporters accomplish greatest good with generosity.
• Woodcreek Church (Richardson, TX)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSent mission team to Zambia serving at Camp Hope and visiting Family Homes, sharing gospel and encouraging children.
• Legacy Christian Academy (TX)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSummer mission team to Zambia serving alongside Every Orphan's Hope.
• Valor Christian High School (CO)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSummer mission team to Zambia serving alongside Every Orphan's Hope.
• Purcellville Baptist Church (VA)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSummer mission team to Zambia serving alongside Every Orphan's Hope.
• Grace Church Frisco (TX)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSummer mission team to Zambia serving alongside Every Orphan's Hope.
• Centreville Presbyterian ChurchminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFebruary 2025 vision trip led by Alyson Presley with team of four women to witness God's work through EOH.
• Multiple Churches (Bikes for Orphans)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorChurches collect bicycles and ship to Narrow Road Bike Shop in Chongwe. Sales and repair shops provide sustainable income while teaching business skills.
• Zambian Government Social WorkerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment social workers refer children to EOH Baby Homes and work with EOH social workers for family reunification and placement.
• Seven Local Zambian Churches (Camp Hope)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLocal Zambian churches participate in Camp Hope with over 150 volunteers preparing and serving at the camps.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Africa New Life: Christian nonprofit operating orphan care, education sponsorship, and life-skills programs in Rwanda with a similar family/child focus and U.S. church-driven donor base. Highly comparable in size, mission, and geography (Sub-Saharan Africa).
• Lifesong for Orphans: Christian nonprofit combining child sponsorship, family-based care, and business-as-mission enterprises (farms, vocational programs) in multiple countries. EOH's bakery/bike shop model parallel's Lifesong's earned-income approach.
• Bethany Christian Services: Faith-based child welfare organization providing foster care, adoption, and family preservation services domestically and internationally. Comparable on child-welfare service mix and Christ-centered social work orientation.
• Compassion International: Large faith-based child sponsorship organization running a structurally similar $X/month sponsorship model serving vulnerable children in developing countries, including across Africa. Most directly comparable on sponsorship economics, donor base, and Christ-centered program design.
• Holt International: Faith-rooted international adoption and family-services organization with strong family-preservation and social work programs in Asia and Africa. Similar in outcomes focus (reintegration, adoption, kinship care).
• Show Hope: Faith-based nonprofit focused on adoption grants and family-based care for orphans, including internationally. Comparable in Christ-centered family-preservation orientation and church-driven fundraising muscle.
• HopeChest (formerly Children's HopeChest): Christian nonprofit operating a sponsorship-driven, family- and community-based care model for vulnerable children in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Closely aligned with EOH's family-based (vs. institutional) orphan care philosophy.

Others

• Adventures in Missions: Christian short-term mission trip provider mobilizing U.S. church teams internationally. Compares to EOH on mission trip mobilization infrastructure and U.S. church channel partnership, though not direct child-care delivery.

Broad incumbents

• World Vision: Global Christian humanitarian organization running large-scale child sponsorship programs across Africa including Zambia. Same beneficiary population and sponsorship DNA, but materially larger in scope and operating model.
• Samaritan's Purse: Large evangelical humanitarian organization with child-focused programs, short-term mission trip infrastructure, and a U.S. church partner channel — overlapping donor base and evangelical fundraising muscle but operating as a much broader relief portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/EOHVidLibrary
• Facebookfacebook.com/EveryOrphansHopeZM
• Instagraminstagram.com/everyorphanshope
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/every-orphan-s-hope

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Every Orphan's Hope