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Hammer & Nails Inc

Hammer & Nails Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,764 to it, the largest being SISTERS OF CHARITY FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($259,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$249k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$795k
Net assets
$238k
9/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Hammer & Nails Inc does

Mission

Dedicated to improving the quality of life for disadvantaged area homebuyers through home and property improvements

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Dedicated to improving the quality of life for disadvantaged area homeowners through home and property improvements

    $227,182 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $227,182.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($105k) Expenses 100 ($245k) Net assets 100 ($225k)2020 Revenue 124 ($130k) Expenses 44 ($108k) Net assets 91 ($204k)2021 Revenue 291 ($306k) Expenses 91 ($223k) Net assets 128 ($288k)2022 Revenue 254 ($267k) Expenses 96 ($235k) Net assets 142 ($319k)2023 Revenue 191 ($201k) Expenses 114 ($279k) Net assets 107 ($241k)2024 Revenue 236 ($249k) Expenses 102 ($251k) Net assets 106 ($238k)
201820202021202220232024
Revenue (236)Expenses (102)Net assets (106)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $204k to $288k (+41%).

$227k
$204k
$288k
$319k
$241k
$239k
201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of Hammer & Nails Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,355 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$140k
’18
$22k
’20
$84k
’21
$32k
’22
−$78k
’23
−$2k
’24
4.1
months of
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

Raymond Fete

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201820202021202220232024
Listed9899710
Joined··+3+0+1+3
No longer listed··2030
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $130k → $82k.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Hammer & Nails 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

Hammer & Nails Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 Hammer & Nails Inc.

33%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 93% · 2019 84% · 2020 98% · 2021 36% · 2022 36% · 2023 44% — 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

25% of Hammer & Nails Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of Hammer & Nails Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
MO
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Hammer & Nails Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · above the median
Months of reserve4.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Hammer & Nails Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds Hammer & Nails Inc?
Hammer & Nails Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,764 to it, the largest being SISTERS OF CHARITY FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($259,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Hammer & Nails Inc have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $794,764 in grants to Hammer & Nails Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Hammer & Nails Inc?
SISTERS OF CHARITY FOUNDATION OF CANTON is the largest funder on record, with $259,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Hammer & Nails Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 23 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