How much did THE HAND FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE HAND FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k21 grants · $35k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$845k

Total assets

Largest grants

ST ANNE'S SCHOOL OF ANNAPOLIS$10,000
CREATIVE DISCOVERY MUSEUM$5,000
CHATTANOOGA TRACK CLUB$4,000
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD$3,800
BACK CREEK BENEFITS INC$3,000
FRIENDS OF HOSPICE$2,500
ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM$2,500
THE BERNIE HOUSE$2,000
SOUTHERN LIT ALLIANCE$1,850
CHATTANOOGA ROTARY CLUB$1,750
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK$1,000
REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER$1,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT SVCS$1,000
CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$1,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$390k · 38 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$390k

$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+43%

Still filing today

55%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

SA
ST ANNE'S SCHOOL OF ANNAPOLIS
8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +70%
CT
CHATTANOOGA TRACK CLUB
8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +39%
AM
ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM
8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +212%

Funded once

CD
CREATIVE DISCOVER MUSEUM
one grant, 2019 · $20k
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLANDgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +43%
MM
MARK MAKINGgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +88%

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.

Girls On the Run of the Greater Chesapeake

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experienced-based curriculum that creatively integrates running.

Recreation & Sports

The Atlanta Girls' School Inc

Inspiring girls to lead lives of purpose.

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The Academy at Charlemont Inc

Nurtures creativity, independent thinking and empathy so that our students become their best selves

Education

Chattahoochee Hills Charter School Inc

The mission of the charter school is to inspire all their children to the highest levels of academic achievement through a rigorous curriculum that integrates the wonders of the natural world.

Education

River Mill Academy

Operation of a north carolina public charter school

Education

Chesapeake Audubon Society

The chesapeake audubon society works in the maryland region to promote the stewardship of natural ecosystems through conservation, restoration, education, and advocacy.

Environment

The Maggie L Walker Governor's School

The Governor's School Foundation cultivates resources to enhance the educational experience of all students at Maggie L. Walker Governor's School.

Education

Arborbrook Christian Academy

Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Education

Avery Coonley School

The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.

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Girls Inc of Chattanooga

Since 1961, girls inc. of chattanooga has served more than 28,000 girls from across chattanooga with programs available to all girls in school, after school and outside of school in seasonal camps. together with donors, the collective…

Youth Development

Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Youth Development

Girls Global Academy

See schedule o.girls global academy (gga) is an all-girls public charter high school in washington, dc that engenders empowerment and ignites confidence to influence change for global benefit. all students pursue one of two international…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools and the most unlike its peers is Room to Read. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/36

the rest of the field

11%

2,000/18,499

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

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/36

Grantees still filing

24/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$316,033Recreation & Sports$61,400Education$35,936Philanthropy$17,000Animals$11,500Arts & Culture$10,950Human Services$10,000

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

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.

The Community Foundation of GreaterTN25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater · Chattanooga Christian Community · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation Aka · Benwood Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell · Footprint Foundation Inc · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda

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 organisation THE HAND FOUNDATION 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHATTANOOGA TRACK CLUB.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 581285215 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHATTANOOGA TRACK CLUB, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Hand Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Hand Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HAND FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Hand Foundation Inc?

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THE HAND FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Hand Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph