Los Angeles, CA

MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION

EIN 20-4486357

Health & Wellness Disease & Chronic Illness Support Patients & families

Mission

Provides short-term financial assistance and emotional support to families caring for a child with a life-limiting or critical illness so parents can focus on their child’s medical needs.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION

Maximum Hope Foundation is a Los Angeles–based 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 20-4486357) that focuses on providing practical, emergency financial relief and supportive resources to families with children facing life‑threatening illnesses. The organization was established in the mid-2000s and is widely identified with entertainer Brad Garrett, who serves in a leadership/ambassador role.

In recent years the foundation has continued regular grantmaking and direct-assistance activity, filing annual Form 990 reports and receiving contributions used to pay urgent family expenses (rent, utilities, travel and other living costs) while a child is hospitalized or undergoing treatment. The group funds its work through donations, grants and benefit events, including a celebrity poker tournament that has been a recurring fundraiser.

Notable achievements

Significant annual contributions (2022)

Recorded contributions totaling roughly $379,576 in fiscal year 2022 that were used to assist families with urgent living expenses while caring for a critically ill child.

Major grant support (2023)

Identified receipt of substantial institutional grant support in recent years, including a six‑figure grant (reported at $100,000) from an outside foundation in 2023 that helped underwrite direct family assistance.

Longstanding fundraiser — Celebrity poker tournament

Operates an annual celebrity poker tournament and other benefit activities (linked publicly to founder Brad Garrett) that serve as recurring fundraising vehicles for the foundation’s emergency-assistance grants.

At a glance

Total assets: $41K
Annual revenue: $145K
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 20-4486357
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Website: www.maximumhopefoundation.org
On Mahalo since: April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Listed as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (tax-exempt since 2006) and files annual Form 990 returns.

Rated on Charity Navigator (one-star / 56% score under Accountability & Finance metrics in the charity’s public profile).

Registered to solicit in California (state charity registration / AB-488 listing reported as current) and included in nonprofit data services (ProPublica, CauseIQ, Instrumentl) used by donors and researchers.

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