Wisconsin · Nonprofit
HAND OF HOPE
HAND OF HOPE (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $302 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($202). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $302
- Net assets
- $23k
What Hand of Hope does
Mission
Hand of Hope's vision is a restoration home and healing center. Our goal is to assess needs and help people lost between the cracks by setting and attaining goals to become whole. We provide healing and offer hope by (h)elping (o)thers (p)rosper & (e)xcel in life and break through the barriers that are keeping them from success we lend a Hand of Hope through resourcing, directing, educating, accountability, and mentoring relationships. The ultimate goal is to help them meet their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs and become successful, independent, and live out the abundant, fulfilling life that god wants them to receive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Programs/classes/support groups - this program is designed to help people break through barriers to their success. The organization assess needs, determine the best options, set goals and create customized action plans while helping others prosper & excel. In 2019 this program served 40 participants.
$39,786 spent100% of program spendingEmma's essentials - care packages/assistance - this program was started by emma when she was nine in order to collect money to help people with the many "essentials" they couldn't afford. This programs helped 52 people in 2019.
Mentors of hope/mentor program 1 on 1 - this program was created for individuals who want to move forward in life, but need more help. Mentors support, listen, encourage and help them reach their goals as they walk beside them offering their support. In 2019 there were 24 participants in this program.
Families of hope/restoring families - this program helps families through discussion, goal setting, accountability and problem solving, so that families can begin their restorative process. Each member experiences personal healing which ultimately benefits the entire family. This program had 4 participants in 2019. Homes of hope/transitional family living - this program helps find families for individuals to live with during an interim period in order to better assist them with personal development and growth. Oversight and case management are provided. There were 2 participants in this program in 2019.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,786.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $21k to $27k (+30%).
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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $94.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 67% 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
67% 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: 2018 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
67% 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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HAND OF HOPE
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
38%
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 (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $302 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($202). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% 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 2 organizations giving $302 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?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $202 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 Wisconsin. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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