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Lifting Hands International

We provide aid to refugees, both at home and abroad.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

International$361kEmployment$279kHuman Services$218kPublic Safety & Disaster$119kHealth$75k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $186,169, the rows itemized in this filing. The $17,757,838 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,571,669 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center for Mind-Body Medicine$52,500
Middle East Children's Alliance$46,669
International Network for Aid Relief and Assistance$40,000
Helping Hand for Relief and Development$26,000
For Peace$21,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STAND WITH UKRAINE: $202k → 11%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $32k → 8%STAND WITH UKRAINE: $16k → 11%Helping Hand for Relief and Development: $26k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $7.2M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$6.1M · 85% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: Psycho-social support · Refugess children's center · Humanitarian aid

Sub-Saharan Africa$316k · 4% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Purchase goats for refugees

Middle East and North Africa$237k · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Purchase goats for refugees · Small business training

South Asia$225k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Humanitarian aid

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$165k · 2% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Humanitarian aid

North America (Canada and Mexico)$156k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Humanitarian aid

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654k · 6 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$654k
$398k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+274%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SW
    Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love
    2× · 2022–2023 · $218k · revenue +56%
  • ME
    MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $76k · revenue +424%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • RJ
    Refugee Jumpstart Coaching
    one grant, 2023 · $279k
  • TH
    TEAM HUMANITY
    one grant, 2022 · $88k
  • FP
    FOOTPRINT PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $32k · revenue +274%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Helpers Usa Inc

To help refugees in housing, food assistance, utility assistance, transportation and driving.

Human Services
2
Global Qrf

Global QRF responds rapidly to changing global security environments by leveraging our strategic partnerships with government, non-governmental organizations, and individuals worldwide to assist and support vulnerable populations from…

International
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
International Refugee and Immigrants Community Services Nfp

To provide assistance to refugee and immigrant communities to help them integrate into their new homeland. contributions will go towards materials, supplies, travel, and transportation. our purpose is to assist refugee and immigrants to…

Community Improvement
5
Humanitarian African Relief Organization

To help africans in need. our main focus is getting food, shelter, clothing and medicine to the needy

International
6
Airbridge Releief

AIRBRIDGE RELIEF plays a vital role in helping refugees and people in war-torn areas through planning, coordination and execution on the delivery and support of humanitarian aid. Our support and work involves helping in three major ways:…

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Sudanese American Relief and Development Cnetr
Education
8
Sudan Aid 911 Emergency Relief Incorporated

To provide support (food, medical and shelter) for victims and refugees escaping or trapped in the war zone in sudan and currently residing in egypt or sudan. most of these refugees are women and children. we will also support them…

International
9
Bridging Initiatives International

Provide holistic and integrated service that address the diverse needs of vulnerable individuals and families experiencing instability as the result of domestic violence and /or homelessness.

Human Services
10
Hungry Hearts International

Hungry Hearts exists to relieve the suffering of the poor by providing basic needs(food, clothing, rent, ect) and dignifed financial assistance (craft project,micro loans to start business, ect). Our goal is to provide resources that will…

International
11
Afghan Refugee Relief

We partner closely with community organizations, local nonprofits, resettlement agencies, religious institutions and passionate volunteers focused on helping refugees, asylum-seekers and humanitarian parolees resettle in Southern…

Philanthropy
12
Hope Worldwide Utah

Hope worldwide utah was created to serve refugee populations around the world. we seek to serve those in acute need and to offer opporunities for volunteers to join us in humanitarian trips.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Valley Refugees Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mission Border Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

36 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
18/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Refugee Jumpstart Coaching: $278,710 · EducationRefugee Jumpstart CoachingStand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $218,268 · Human ServicesStand With Ukraine Inc dba To…HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $57,725 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND D…FORPEACE INC: $156,432 · Community ImprovementFORPEACE INCMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $75,669 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHI…THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC: $71,050 · InternationalTHE INTERNATION…TEAM HUMANITY: $87,600 · OtherTEAM HUMA…THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $75,000 · HealthFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $31,880 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$278,710Human Services$275,993Community Improvement$156,432International$146,719Other$87,600Health$75,000Public Safety & Disaster$31,880

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $218,268 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetFORPEACE INC: $156,432 over 3y, 31% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $75,669 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC: $71,050 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $57,725 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $31,880 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
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.

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…doTERRA Healing Hands…The Community Foundat…Church World Service …The Ashton Family Fou…Larry H Miller and Ga…Baby2babyCharities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Church World Service Inc · The Ashton Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Baby2baby · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lifting Hands International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lifting Hands International. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 9 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 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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