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Many Hands Inc

Many Hands leverages the power of collective giving to support nonprofits serving and empowering Washington, DC area women, children, and families in socioeconomic need.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$555kHousing & Shelter$334kCrime & Legal$273kHuman Services$237kHealth$210kFood & Nutrition$173kYouth Development$73kEmployment$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$322k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DC Kincare Alliance$100,000
Child & Family Network Center$75,000
New Endeavors by Women$75,000
Urban Ed Inc$75,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $541k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HOMESTRETCH INC: $56k → 4%Homeless Childrens Playtime: $100k → 14%Together We Bake: $69k → 9%Community Bridges Inc: $69k → 8%Prince Georges Child RC: $70k → 11%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $37k → 9%COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES: $41k → 14%DC Kincare Alliance: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Casa for Children of the District of Columbia

Court appointed special advocates of DC (CASA DC) promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care or juvenile justice system can be safe, establish permanence and have the…

Human Services
2
The Family Place

The organization's mission is to empower low-income families and to foster the optimal development of their young children through education and support services.

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3
Collaborative Solutions for Communities

To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.

Crime & Legal
4
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
5
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
6
The Center for Healthy Families

To improve the lives of pregnant and parenting teens and their families. it is our goal to break the cycle of disadvantage that youth childbearing perpetuates through a holistic, coordinated community system of support to engage parenting…

Human Services
7
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
8
St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families

St. Anns Center helps mothers and children overcome crisis and achieve lasting independence and stability by providing a safe and supportive home, child care, education and employment assistance, and clinical social work services within a…

Human Services
9
House of Ruth

House of ruth helps women, children and families in greatest need and with very limited resources to build safe, stable lives and achieve their highest potential. serving the district of columbia since 1976, house of ruth provides…

Housing & Shelter
10
Youthnet

Provide caring and supportive educational and social services to youth and families to help them attain a productive and successful life. founded in 1969, the agency has grown from a single group home to multiple programs across 14…

Human Services
11
Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition
12
Childstrive

Childstrive builds on the relationships, strengths, and unique abilities of young children and their families by fostering social, emotional, and physical well-being so all children can flourish.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Women's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Babies Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr14%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr14%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
15%
3,169/21,573

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DC KINCARE ALLIANCE — $100,000 · Human ServicesDC KINCARE ALLIANCETHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATIONHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT — $100,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECTPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC — $70,000 · Human ServicesPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER…Together We Bake — $69,000 · Human ServicesTogether We BakeCommunity Bridges Inc — $69,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Bridges IncHomestretch Inc — $55,500 · Human ServicesHomestretch IncCOMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES — $40,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICESLIBERTY'S PROMISE — $37,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY'S PROMISECOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC — $140,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC — $75,000 · EducationTHE CHILD AND FAMIL…EDU-FUTURO — $70,000 · EducationEDU-FUTUROGENERATION HOPE — $55,500 · EducationGENERATION HOPEFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $100,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF T…HEALTHY BABIES PROJECT INC — $69,000 · HealthHEALTHY BABI…GRASSROOTS HEALTH — $40,500 · HealthGRASSROOTS H…NEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW ENDEAVO…WANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterWANDA ALSTO…CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $55,500 · Housing & ShelterCALVARY WOM…NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionNOURISH N…LA COCINA VA — $72,500 · Food & NutritionLA COCINA…URBAN ED INC — $75,000 · EmploymentBYTE BACK — $37,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH — $72,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ADVOCA…HOPE AND A HOME — $37,000 · OtherHOPE AND A HOMETHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $100,000 · OtherTHE DISTRICT OF …COMMUNITY YOUTH ADVANCE INCORPORATED — $72,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY YOUTH …
Human Services$641,000Education$341,000Health$209,500Housing & Shelter$200,500Food & Nutrition$172,500Employment$112,000Other$282,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC — $140,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetDC KINCARE ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN — $75,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH ADVANCE INCORPORATED — $72,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLA COCINA VA — $72,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH — $72,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC — $70,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEDU-FUTURO — $70,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTogether We Bake — $69,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetHEALTHY BABIES PROJECT INC — $69,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCommunity Bridges Inc — $69,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $55,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGENERATION HOPE — $55,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHomestretch Inc — $55,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGRASSROOTS HEALTH — $40,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES — $40,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLIBERTY'S PROMISE — $37,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHOPE AND A HOME — $37,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBYTE BACK — $37,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…United Way of the Nat…Corina Higginson Trus…Philip L Graham Fund …John Edward Fowler Me…William S Abell Found…Sidgmore Family Found…Dimick Foundation Joh…Clark-Winchcole Found…Venable Foundation Inc
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC47.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Sidgmore Family Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Many Hands Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Community Advocates for Family and Youth — 23% of income from government
  • Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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