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HAND Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$371k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your 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 FY2018–2025.

Education$2.4MInternational$983kCivil Rights$477kArts & Culture$338kHealth$203kPhilanthropy$120kCrime & Legal$116kPublic Benefit$114kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $298k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $310k
  • $250k+1 grant · $371k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIO$370,962
MOMS AGAINST POVERTY$200,000
GLOBSEC US FOUNDATION$60,000
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA$50,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$25,000
MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$25,000
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
BABY2BABY$25,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$25,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$15,000
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 (FY18–25, $653k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $200k → 7%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $1k → 8%CHILD INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 10%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $1k → 14%Gulf Coast Kids House Inc: $3k → 16%Georgia Center for Child Advocacy Inc: $3k → 14%BILL WILSON CENTER: $5k → 8%The Honeycomb Project Inc NFP: $2k → 14%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $70k → 7%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $25k → 10%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $47k → 7%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $15k → 10%VISIONARY WOMEN: $5k → 14%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $38k → 7%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $34k → 7%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $4k → 10%FARHANG FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $27k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $4k → 10%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $20k → 7%CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $4k → 10%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $2k → 10%A Sense of Home: $10k → 14%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $6k → 7%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $5k → 7%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $5k → 7%THORN: $10k → 14%Leah's Pantry Inc: $3k → 10%LEAHS PANTRY INC: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
MO
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of HAND Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

HAND Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 44 repeat orgs$943k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
110

Total granted

$3.6M
$793k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NS
    NUEVA SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2022 · $540k · revenue +17%
  • MA
    MOMS AGAINST POVERTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $498k · revenue +25%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    5× · 2020–2025 · $345k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • FF
    FARHANG FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +64%
  • BO
    Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford
    one grant, 2019 · $58k
  • DU
    Dignitas Ukraine Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
12
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Baskerville Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity Food PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterAffordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/154
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,824

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.

05the grantee network

151 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. 151 of the 168 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
148/151
Grantees still filing
94/151
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $634,462 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR…NUEVA SCHOOL — $540,000 · EducationNUEVA SCHOOLTrustees of Tufts College — $345,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeCAREMESSAGE — $155,000 · EducationCAREMESSAGEGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $125,000 · EducationCODEORG — $110,500 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $100,000 · Education+28 more — $391,259 · Education+28 moreNational Iranian American Council — $335,000 · InternationalNational Iranian Ame…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $125,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN R…DASRA — $75,000 · InternationalDASRAWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $71,388 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHE…GLOBSEC US FOUNDATION — $60,000 · InternationalGLOBSEC US FOUNDATIO…PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC — $60,000 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FUND IN…KEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $52,500 · InternationalKEEP CHILDREN IN SCH…Dignitas Ukraine Inc — $50,000 · International+9 more — $109,000 · International+9 moreMOMS AGAINST POVERTY — $497,620 · Human ServicesMOMS AGAINST P…FARHANG FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesFARHANG FOUNDA…+15 more — $62,000 · Human Services+15 moreMENLO SCHOOL — $87,197 · OtherMENLO SCHOOLBoard of Trustees of the Leland Stanford — $57,500 · OtherBoard of Trustee…STANFORD UNIVERSITY - STANFORD INSTITUTE FOR ECONO — $55,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERS…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL L…FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION — $29,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $29,361 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $26,820 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $26,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Other+74 more — $372,450 · Other+74 moreDiaspora Arts Connection Inc — $120,550 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INC — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $26,000 · Arts & CultureSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Science & Tech+1 more — $2,500 · Science & TechAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $25,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $1,000 · Civil Rights
Education$2,401,221International$937,888Human Services$659,620Other$763,828Arts & Culture$321,550Science & Tech$102,500Civil Rights$86,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $634,462 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNUEVA SCHOOL — $540,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOMS AGAINST POVERTY — $497,620 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $345,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Iranian American Council — $335,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCAREMESSAGE — $155,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDiaspora Arts Connection Inc — $120,550 over 7y, 14% of budgetCODEORG — $110,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFARHANG FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMENLO SCHOOL — $87,197 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDASRA — $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFILM FORUM INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $72,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $71,388 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $61,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $61,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBSEC US FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKEEP CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetDignitas Ukraine Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION — $29,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS ACTION INC — $28,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIRANIAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $28,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIRANIAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPANZI FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EURASIA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDARKNESS TO LIGHT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGO ONCOLOGY INC — $17,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBuckham Fine Arts Project — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Gordon E and Betty I …The William & Flora H…East Bay Community Fo…Jewish Community Fede…The Yelp FoundationThe David and Lucile …United Way of the Bay…Philanthropic Venture…Bright Funds Foundati…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA36.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation

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 HAND Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Gulf Coast Kid's House Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 168 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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