· Private foundation
The Hand Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT SVCS | $1,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SAST ANNE'S SCHOOL OF ANNAPOLIS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +115%
- CTChattanooga Track Club8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +39%
- AMANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +33%
- MMMARK MAKINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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,…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The organizations mission is to inspire all girls to be strong,smart, and bold, through research-based, innovative, and educational programs and activities.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.
Girls inc. of chattanooga inspires and equips girls to be strong, smart and bold leaders within their families, their communities and society.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsbuild and the most unlike its peers is Prison Prevention Ministries 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 35 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 80 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ST ANNE'S SCHOOL OF ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Track Club ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds BACK CREEK BENEFITS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN LIT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHNORTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERNIE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARK MAKING ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INNOCENTS AT RISK ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE LAKEWAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc · Footprint Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Howard Fund · George R Johnson Family 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 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.
- Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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