North Carolina · Nonprofit
ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS
ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,138 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($360,482). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Elk River Helping Hands does
Mission
Elk River Helping Hands Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting in the aftermath of catastrophic events with needs of the people of the High Country of North Carolina, including but not limited to Avery and Watauga Counties in North Carolina and Carter C
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To assist invdividual with Disaster Relief from Hurriance Helene
$425,412 spent83% of program spendingElk River Helping Hands Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting in the aftermath of catastrophic events with needs of the people of the High Country of North Carolina, including but not limited to Avery and Watauga Counties in North Carolina and Carter County, Tennessee.
$90,007 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $515,419.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
14 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS’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
ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS.
“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
ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 9 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $407k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS?
- ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,138 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($360,482). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,198,138 in grants to ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $360,482 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing