· Private foundation
The Open 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $20,000 |
| VISION NATIONALS | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $10,000 |
| METHOW CONSERVANCEY | $5,000 |
| BIBLE PROJECT | $4,000 |
| PLAN INTERNATIONAL | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| GIFFORD LAW CENTER | $4,000 |
| QUEST CHURCH SEATTLE | $4,000 |
| NW COMMUNITY BAIL FUND | $2,000 |
| YOUTH CARE | $2,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $2,000 |
| WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +82%
- BBIBLEPROJECT6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +98%
TREVOR PROJECT INC3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $12k
- LNLove Never Fails Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +839%
- TATHE ANCHORone 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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 49 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 INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds METHOW CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FACING HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds Love Never Fails Inc ↗
- Who funds Embers International ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds GeekGirlCon ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CADENCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds International Living Future Institute ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Open Hand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Open Hand Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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