Oregon · Nonprofit
HAND 2 MOUTH
HAND 2 MOUTH (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,299,328 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($459,764). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $482k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $259k
What Hand 2 Mouth does
Mission
Hand2mouth is a theatre ensemble that creates original work that is bold, accessible, and inclusive. We support all forms of artistic expression and experimentation, and seek to enrich the social fabric of society through our work. Committed to fostering community through performance, engagement, events, and educational programs. Hand2mouth seeks genuine connections with audiences by speaking authentically from the voices and lives of our creative artists and our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education program: student voices is a program of theatrical workshops and summer camps that allow youth to create unique performances based on the lives in which they live. In workshops youth are able to collaborate, under professional artistic guidance, and express their own experiences through devising theater in ensemble.in 2023 we continued our summer camps and worked in six portland public school district campuses and initiated a student work program for high school aged youth to work as camp counselors throughout the summer. We worked with roughly 350 youth within this time period as counselors and attendees. We are also expanding in-school residencies working with the cottonwood school and hillsboro school district.
$215,576 spentof which $19,950 as grants$175,987 earned by the program49% of program spendingInternational program: hand2mouth has recently completed the pilot year of our new international cultural diplomacy program, funded by the u.s. Department of state. This initiative draws on our unique history of working with the us state department as arts envoys and our experience partnering with international ngos, local artists and civic partners to organize, fund and lead international collaborative theatre touring projects. This program served 450 youth in armenia, egypt, ethiopia, the republic of georgia, lebanon, namibia, peru and serbia. We anticipate that future iterations will serve 6-12 nations each year, with a particular emphasis on countries where these resources are more difficult to access, such as those with complex racial or religious divides, fledgling democracies, authoritarian governments, struggling economies, or those emerging from lengthy periods of armed conflict.
$113,204 spent$207,952 earned by the program26% of program spendingPublic platform: co-produced projects with curated local artists in which h2m provides a platform to amplify new voices and perspectives within the community. Public platform's 2023 highlights include "memnto mori", company created "what brings you here?", which is a youth devising project.
$109,083 spent$8,781 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $437,863.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $138k to $392k (+183%).
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: 2018 8% · 2019 14% · 2020 28% · 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of HAND 2 MOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $9k → $265k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 HAND 2 MOUTH’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
HAND 2 MOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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 HAND 2 MOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 70% · 2019 59% · 2020 30% · 2021 47% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — 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
73% of HAND 2 MOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
76% of HAND 2 MOUTH's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $630k 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.
Against its field
HAND 2 MOUTH is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding HAND 2 MOUTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $495k on record.
- Department of State$485k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HAND 2 MOUTH
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 HAND 2 MOUTH: 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 HAND 2 MOUTH?
- HAND 2 MOUTH (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,299,328 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($459,764). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAND 2 MOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,299,328 in grants to HAND 2 MOUTH, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAND 2 MOUTH?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $459,764 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAND 2 MOUTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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