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The Hand Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Hand Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
131
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0139% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.5MReligion$327kHealth$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kFood & Nutrition$87kYouth Development$75kCommunity Improvement$61kHuman Services$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k97 grants · $227k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $531k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $995k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$167M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Florida Foundation$700,000
Community Methodist Church$170,000
Stetson University$150,000
Glades Day School$150,000
University of Florida Foundation$125,000
Henderson County Rescue Squad Inc$100,000
Glades Day School$100,000
Cross Training Ministries$100,000
Connie and Ricky Sparks Scholarship Foundation$50,000
Frontline Healing Foundation$50,000
Quantum House$40,000
CROS Ministries$35,000
Dunklin Memorial Church Inc$35,000
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation$30,000
Trustbridge Foundation Inc$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pregnancy Care Center: $25k → 14%The Refuge Ranch Inc: $10k → 20%Trustbridge Foundation Inc: $25k → 11%Light House Cafe Ministries of the Glades Inc: $25k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
PA
NJ
CA
VA
KS
TN
NC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550k · 75 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

75 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 92 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
65

Total granted

$550k
$181k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2020–2023 · $16k
  • JA
    Junior Achievement
    3× · 2020–2023 · $15k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

04Its 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
Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc

The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…

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2
Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is organized for the purpose of advancing the economic, professional, cultural, educational and civic welfare of miami beach and the area surrounding miami beach, florida. the chamber is committed to encouraging the growth of…

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3
Florida Petroleum Marketers Association Inc

The mission of the florida petroleum marketers association is to protect the industry and advocate on its behalf. we strive to promote a growth oriented business community in the state of florida and work to ensure that everyone of our…

Community Improvement
4
Florida College Inc

Florida college, as a private, independent liberal arts college, provides a comprehensive undergraduate experience designed to develop students spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially; to integrate into the students' lives the…

Education
5
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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6
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc

The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.

Education
7
Leadership Florida Statewide Community Foundation Inc

We continually convene a statewide community of committed leaders to enhance and recharge their leadership skills and to educate and inspire them to work across their strengths and diversities for a better florida. we engage floridians by…

Community Improvement
8
The Bolles School

The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.

Education
9
Area Agency On Aging of Palm Beach Treasure Coast Inc

The area agency on aging of palm beach/treasure coast is a private, non-profit, regional agency whose mission is to advocate, plan and promote the independence, dignity, health and well-being of seniors and their caregivers in a manner…

Human Services
10
Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc

The mission of the lighthouse is to educate, empower and employ residents of pasco, hernando and citrus, fl counties who are visually impaired and blind.

Human Services
11
Lighthouse Central Florida Inc

Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.

Human Services
12
Florida Pharmacy Association Inc

To support and encourage higher standards of pharmaceutical education at all levels of the profession in order to attract qualified personnel into the profession of pharmacy; to encourage and maintain relationships with all healthcare…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is TrustBridge Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rotary International Belle Glade Rotary Club. 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

31 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. 31 of the 232 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Methodist Church: $190,000 · OtherCommunity Methodist ChurchCROSS TRAINING MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · OtherCROSS TRAINING MINISTRIES INCHENDERSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $100,000 · OtherHENDERSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD+179 more: $1,043,260 · Other+179 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $825,375 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCGLADES DAY SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationGLADES DAY SCHOOLSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $150,000 · EducationSTETSON UNIVERSITY INCTHE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthQUANTUM HOUSE INC: $40,000 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthPREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT HOUSE CAFE MINISTRIES OF THE GLADES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTrustBridge Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Refuge Ranch Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLADES YOUTH CONNECTION INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCIELO COMMUNITY FOR INNOVATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP LEADERSHIP: $25,000 · Community ImprovementChristians Reaching Out To Society Inc: $35,000 · Religion
Other$1,433,260Education$1,280,375Health$120,000Human Services$85,000Youth Development$75,000Community Improvement$50,000Religion$35,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $825,375 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLADES DAY SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetQUANTUM HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChristians Reaching Out To Society Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFLORIDA AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCIELO COMMUNITY FOR INNOVATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP LEADERSHIP: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGLADES YOUTH CONNECTION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE CAFE MINISTRIES OF THE GLADES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTrustBridge Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBELLE GLADE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $11,260 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL BELLE GLADE ROTARY CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetThe Refuge Ranch Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Palm Beaches & Treasure Coast Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDONELSON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

He Hill Foundation IncUnited Way of Palm Be…Community Foundation …Publix Super Markets …Royal Foundation IncLost Tree Village Cha…The Jim Moran Foundat…Quantum Foundation IncThe Batchelor Foundat…Renaissance Charitabl…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…
He Hill Foundation IncFL24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: He Hill Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Royal Foundation Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • ARTS4ALL Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 232 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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