· Private foundation
The Hand Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 REFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARK MAKING ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INNOCENTS AT RISK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE OF THE LAKEWAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds THE KEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hand Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hand Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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