Indiana · Nonprofit
HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING
HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,368 to it, the largest being MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($42,986). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING's revenue fell 24% between 2021 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,456 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Early Learning Indiana Inclocalportfolio match
- North Central Health Services Incshared funderslocal
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 17% · 2022 36% · 2023 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $18k → $17k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING’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 IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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 HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 41% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you typical among the 160 organizations that share them.
- Early Learning Indiana Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- North Central Health Services Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 9 organizations near you
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Action for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orchard Placeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Coordinated Child Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Years Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Finance Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Institute of Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING?
- HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,368 to it, the largest being MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($42,986). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $83,368 in grants to HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING?
- MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAND IN HAND CREATIVE LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing