Tennessee · Nonprofit
FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS
FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,917 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ($33,333). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Fun With Friends Helping Hands does
Mission
We provide fundraising and volunteers for local charities as well as we run our own programs that provide fun experiences to our local community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We held our fourth annual winter wonderland event to benefit foster kids by providing Christmas to them and their families through a winter themed event. We sponsored a portion of a youth kickball league. We sponsored an end of the season celebration for a kid's kickball league. We put on a trunk or treat free event for our community. All part of our Memory Makers program. We gave away money to waiters/waitresses working on Christmas day. Held a fundraising event for Knox Pride.
$4,543 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,543.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $4k to $7k (+85%).
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 FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ronald Cornell Jr
President/ CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $181 → $21k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FUN WITH FRIENDS 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
FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FUN WITH FRIENDS 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUN WITH FRIENDS 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 FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS?
- FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,917 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ($33,333). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $38,917 in grants to FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC is the largest funder on record, with $33,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUN WITH FRIENDS HELPING HANDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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