Tennessee · Nonprofit
HAND OF HOPE
HAND OF HOPE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,651 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($6,626). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Hand of Hope does
Mission
Hand of Hope is an organization dedicated to improving peoples lives in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya through orphan care aid to the poor and evangelism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organizations Childrens Program provides financial and educational support to vulnerable children in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya who have lost parents due to conflict or health related causes. During the year more than 100 children received assistance covering basic needs school materials and access to primary and secondary education. The program also addressed basic health needs to support consistent school attendance. Seven beneficiaries continued into higher education. The organization also supported 15 children in northern Kenya through the John Fox Fund by paying school fees and ensuring access to education in an underserved area. In addition the Mwangaza Lunch Program provided a daily nutritious meal to more than 40 children many of whom travel long distances to school. This service improved nutritional stability and supported students ability to remain focused throughout the school day. Across these initiatives the organization delivered essential services that improved educational access health stability and overall well being for more than 100 children and their families.
$450 spentof which $28,109 as grants38% of program spendingThe organization partnered with six churches in Ethiopia to support evangelism activities in surrounding villages. Funds were provided to each church for this purpose and a total of 15 evangelists received financial support through the program during the year. In addition to ongoing evangelism funding the organization also supported a continuing project to document the history of evangelism in the Borana region of Ethiopia. This project initiated in the prior year and continued through 2025 will produce the first historical record of its kind for the region.
$450 spentof which $10,743 as grants38% of program spendingThe organization conducted the Mega House-Building Project to provide safe housing for families living in inadequate or nonexistent shelters. During the year funds were used to construct two simple homes for families identified as having urgent need. One home was built for a single mother who is deaf and caring for her son. The second home was provided to a single mother and her children who had been living on the streets due to lack of housing. This project is part of the organizations humanitarian work to assist impoverished individuals requiring basic shelter and support.
$275 spentof which $5,500 as grants23% of program spendingIn 2025 the organization provided drought relief assistance to residents of the Mwangaza Community in Golole northern Kenya. The region experienced severe and prolonged drought resulting in loss of livestock and widespread malnutrition. A major need identified by the community was the inability to reestablish crop fields due to lack of seeds. The organization supplied funds to purchase seeds for local farmers enabling approximately 200 families to replant their fields. This support helped restore food production for household consumption and provided families with the opportunity to generate income from surplus crops.
$0 spentof which $2,750 as grants0% of program spendingIn 2025 the organization provided financial assistance for medical needs to nearly 10 individuals in the Isiolo and Sololo regions of Kenya. Because the organization is operated entirely by volunteers program funds are directed primarily to services rather than administrative costs. During the year the organization funded medical care and necessary surgeries for seven visually impaired children resulting in improved vision. Additional individuals received financial support to obtain essential medical treatment that would otherwise have been inaccessible.
$0 spentof which $8,715 as grants0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,175.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $30k to $45k (+50%).
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 HAND OF HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $184.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 OF HOPE’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 OF HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
96% 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 OF HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
96% of HAND OF HOPE'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 $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
HAND OF HOPE's revenue fell 34% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
52%
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 OF HOPE: 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 OF HOPE?
- HAND OF HOPE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,651 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($6,626). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAND OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,651 in grants to HAND OF HOPE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAND OF HOPE?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $6,626 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAND OF HOPE 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 2018–2025), 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