Maine · Nonprofit
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano (Maine) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,138,066 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($769,830). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Hand in Hand Mano en Mano does
Mission
Mano en Mano works with farmworkers statewide and immigrants in Downeast Maine to empower them to thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Access to Essential Services, Housing and Education:Mano en Mano's long-standing programs in 2024 continued to meet the needs of immigrant and farmworker communities in Maine. Highlights include: providing over 7,000 individual home visits, transportation, interpretation, health and wellness, and other basic needs services and referrals; welcoming and celebrating migrant workers; operating a food pantry and food distribution events visited by 10,778 individuals during the year; disbursing award monies to community members from the housing barrier relief fund for down payment and renovations; running bilingual childcare and completing construction on a new childcare facility; and providing services to 363 migrant children/youth across Maine. (Additional Narrative on Schedule O).Access and Advocacy:Access to Essential Services and Advocacy address the lack of effective services available to immigrants and farmworkers in Maine that prevents these communities from meeting basic needs or pursuing long-term goals. In 2024 we welcomed over 3,000 workers and families across blueberry, apple, broccoli, and wreath seasons through mobile and site-based welcome centers. In total, we supported…
$1,824,251 spentof which $18,617 as grants$380,104 earned by the program85% of program spendingCommunity Health Support:Mano en Mano continued COVID-19 response programs in 2024 to support community members through the ongoing pandemic. Support included supporting community members with basic needs to address disparities related to social determinants of health, vaccine outreach and education, a community health worker program, and funding for soft infrastructure to support health equity.
$314,877 spent15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,139,128.
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 $2.6M to $3.9M (+51%).
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: 2017 73% · 2018 68% · 2019 67% · 2020 40% · 2021 46% · 2022 45% · 2023 48% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Hand in Hand Mano en Mano’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Juana Rodreguez-Vasquez
Executive Director
Board chair
Adan Delgado
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $59k → $696k.
10 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Mano en Mano’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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 Mano en Mano has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 Hand in Hand Mano en Mano.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 37% · 2019 63% · 2020 38% · 2021 20% · 2022 27% · 2023 16% — 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
54% of Hand in Hand Mano en Mano's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
55% of Hand in Hand Mano en Mano's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 in Hand Mano en Mano runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Hand in Hand Mano en Mano receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $831k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$831k
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 in Hand Mano en Mano
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Welcome Home Downeast LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hand in Hand Mano en Mano: 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 in Hand Mano en Mano?
- Hand in Hand Mano en Mano (Maine) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,138,066 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($769,830). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hand in Hand Mano en Mano have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $6,138,066 in grants to Hand in Hand Mano en Mano, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hand in Hand Mano en Mano?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $769,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hand in Hand Mano en Mano find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 59 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