Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC
ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,222 to it, the largest being Justamere Foundation ($275,280). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $509k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $628k
- Net assets
- $255k
What Arts Holding Hands and Hearts Inc does
Mission
Ahhah's mission is to build equity and justice by empowering youth, strengtening families and mobilizing communities through arts, literacy, and mindfulness. Ahhah uses multiple intentional strategies to offset the stressful effects of longterm poverty. Programs are designed to engage youth in mindful, artistic initiatives, building resilency and establishing positive pathways for a productive and fulfilling future. Ahhah's community partnerships and programs connect and engage youth and their families with the communities served in chester county, pa, especially coatesville,pa and kennett square,pa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Literacy programs the chester county imagination library (ccil) in 2021, ahhah initiated the ccil in partnership with the dolly parton imagination library. The program sends one free book per month to the home of any chester county child aged 0-5 years who registers. From july 1, 2024 to june 30, 2025 112,683 books were mailed to children in chester county. 10,082 children were registered at the end of the fiscal year. This program is free to families. This program is supported by a generous donation from justamere foundation, the pennsylvania department of education, fundraisers, and other generous donations. Imagination library book club & bilingual storytime recordings in january 2024 ahhah launched an imagination book club and storytime program which provides free weekly bookclub/storytimes for children ages2-4 at the kennett library using the ccil books. Once a month ahhah in partnership with the kennett library and one of the 34+ partners serving esl families, ahhah video records one of the ccil bilingual books that is put on ahhah's youtube channel and sent to the esl partners to share with their families. Other literacy initiative ahhah's literacy initiatives enables youth…
$262,075 spent$1,025 earned by the program67% of program spendingRestorative justice programs step up, step out, make a difference (sus0) suso is a 30 week after school empowerment, self-care, and leadership program for girls in 7th-12th grades, motivated primarily by our recognition that childhood trauma and aces impact girls disproportionately and distinctively. The program was created to support the girls of coatesville in shifting their greater mental wellbeing from "surving" to "thriving" . In 2024-2025 this program was offered at the coatesville ymca. Each girl and their family received a free membership to the y. Expressive arts programs ahhah's restorative justice programs use the expressive arts to communicate the experiences of the young people involved and impacted by the juvenile justice system to their peers and the community at large. We use trauma responsive and mindfulness techniques to create safe and supportive spaces for youth to share their authentic voices and experiences. Ultimately, participants emerge with confidence, increased resilience, and positive pathways toward productive and fulfilling futures. Our expressive arts programs include writing, visual arts, cooking arts, and filmmaking. 2025 marked the eleventh year…
$126,299 spent$43,049 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $388,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $176k to $267k (+52%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 0% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $407 → $120k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 49% · 2022 83% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $306k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $322k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC?
- ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $628,222 to it, the largest being Justamere Foundation ($275,280). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $628,222 in grants to ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC?
- Justamere Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $275,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS HOLDING HANDS AND HEARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing