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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.
03Its 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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Women's Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $100,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECTTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATIONDC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $100,000 · Human ServicesDC KINCARE ALLIANCEPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC: $70,000 · Human ServicesPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER…Community Bridges Inc: $69,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Bridges IncTogether We Bake: $69,000 · Human ServicesTogether We BakeHomestretch 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC: $140,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN: $75,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetURBAN ED INC: $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH: $72,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLA COCINA VA: $72,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH ADVANCE INCORPORATED: $72,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC: $70,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEDU-FUTURO: $70,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCommunity Bridges Inc: $69,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTogether We Bake: $69,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetHEALTHY BABIES PROJECT INC: $69,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGENERATION HOPE: $55,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHomestretch Inc: $55,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $55,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES: $40,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGRASSROOTS HEALTH: $40,500 over 1y, 7.9% 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
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.

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

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 Many Hands Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Many Hands Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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