· Private foundation
Handel Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTER SEALS | $5,500 |
| AKRONS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $4,998 |
| EJ DEBARTOLO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $3,500 |
| CARMSTRONG | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGOLDEN STRING INC7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +132%
- TETHE EDWARD J DEBARTOLO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +40%
- PDPOTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- ALACLD LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We empower individuals with down syndrome and their communities through education, resources, outreach and advocacy. we are committed to amplifying our collective voices and broader needs to drive meaningful change.
The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.
Support research and education that lead to improved quality of life for individuals with ASXL syndromes.
To thoughtfully support, comprehensively educate, and aggressively seek the best treatments and a cure for those affected by gorlin syndrome.
Fund research to better understand Smith-Kingsmore syndrome and find treatments to improve patient quality of life and, ultimately, a cure.
Smh administrative services, inc. ("sma") is a not-for-profit corporation providing administrative support to affiliated not-for-profit organizations serving children requiring medical and rehabilitative services. st. mary's healthcare…
Founded in 1952, The Arc Quinebaug Valley is a nonprofit human services agency committed to supporting individuals (and their families) with intellectual, developmental and other life-affecting disabilities. We provide opportunities…
St. Marys Foundation for Children, Inc. is dedicated to the enhancement of health, safety and quality of life for children with special needs.
Education as per montessori philosophy
Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome Alliance (SDS Alliance) is a US-based nonprofit organization serving the global SDS community to improve and save the lives of people affected by SDS by focusing on research and therapy development.
To enhance the quality of life for all people whose lives are touched by Down Syndrome
Advance sleep medicine worldwide by convening the world of sleep science and medicine.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDWARD J DEBARTOLO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Yampa Valley Autism Program ↗
- Who funds Cloves Syndrome Community ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARON'S EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Premier Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Handel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Handel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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