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Helping Hands

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$478k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$192,939
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$679kYouth Development$166kReligion$76kHuman Services$46k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bridlepath Equine Center$678,9832n/a
Solid Rock Youth Ministries Inc$166,382222%
Servenow$25,00021%
Joni and Friends$20,00010%
New Hope Ministries Inc$20,00010%
Global Disciples$12,50020%
Solanco Neighborhood Ministries$10,0002n/a
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$8,0001n/a
The Sparrow Fund$6,00021%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

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.

Lancaster County Community FoundationPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Helping Hands

How much does Helping Hands give?
Helping Hands reported 11 grants totaling $477,821 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Helping Hands fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (70%), Youth Development (17%), Religion (8%).
Who are Helping Hands's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Bridlepath Equine Center ($679k), Solid Rock Youth Ministries Inc ($166k), Servenow ($25k).
Does Helping Hands 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 Helping Hands?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Helping Hands based?
Helping Hands is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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