Texas · Nonprofit
By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab
By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,674 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $265k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $94k
What By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab does
Mission
Provides after-school mentorship, leadership development, and academic support for students in Dallas, with a focus on literacy and holistic growth: mind, body, and soul.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During the fiscal year, the organization began transitioning from the After-School Opportunity Lab (A-SOL) model toward affiliation with By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas. As part of this transition, the organization refined its after-school program structure and expanded its emphasis on literacy support, holistic student development, faith-based mentorship, family engagement, and long-term program infrastructure while continuing to serve students in South Dallas.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the organization operated a Christ-centered after-school program serving students in South Dallas through academic support, mentorship, leadership development, literacy-focused activities, enrichment programming, and spiritual formation. The organization emphasized holistic student development, supporting students mind, body, and soul through caring relationships, academic engagement, meals, social-emotional support, and Bible-based programming. During the year, the organization expanded operations, strengthened community partnerships, and served approximately 18 students as it prepared for future growth under the By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas model.
$115,868 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $115,868.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $24k to $108k (+355%).
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.
100% of By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab’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. 1 of the last 2 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.
Chief executive
Austin Bowyer
CEO
Board chair
Kevin Dial
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab’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
By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab.
“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.
Where its funders are
75% of By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab'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 $27k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab runs a healthier operating margin 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 By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab?
- By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,674 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $108,674 in grants to By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 8 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