Delaware · Private foundation
HAND Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $370,962
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations HAND Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $568k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $640k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $201k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $778k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $732k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $593k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $649k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $401k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nueva School | $540,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Moms Against Poverty | $497,620 | 6 | 5% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $345,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Iranian American Council | $335,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Caremessage | $155,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Georgetown University | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Diaspora Arts Connection Inc | $120,550 | 7 | 14% |
| Codeorg | $110,500 | 3 | 1% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 146 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget HAND Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation
How this is measured
About HAND Foundation
- How much does HAND Foundation give?
- HAND Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,011,710 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does HAND Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), International (19%), Civil Rights (9%).
- Who are HAND Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Nueva School ($540k), Moms Against Poverty ($498k), Trustees of Tufts College ($345k).
- Does HAND Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does HAND Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as HAND Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is HAND Foundation based?
- HAND Foundation is based in DE.
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