Georgia · Nonprofit
Hand Up Inc
Hand Up Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,695 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($108,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Hand Up Inc does
Mission
Serving as the heart of service in Gordon County, we strive to provide volunteer opportunities that offer a wide variety of emergency resources to our neighbors in need. Through the support of volunteers and donors, we focus on offering programs that focus on hunger and homeless prevention. We strive to ensure no one living in Gordon County has to choose between nourishment and other basic human needs. We want to ensure that those we serve feel hope instead of hopelessness and are met with compassion and respect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Thrift shop operations provide second hand store selling clothing, furniture, and appliances donated by the general public. Open to the public and the majority of the customers are low income individuals. The thrift shop assist families who have experienced both financial hardship and natural disasters and begin to rebuild their homes and their lives. The Bridge provides for families experiencing homeless in accessing safe and stable housing. The Bridge works with and assists participants in identifying and dealing with a broad range of variables to reach self sufficiency which includes housing.
$1,780,280 spent100% of program spendingProvide emergency assistance to those in dire need. Provide prescription drugs, medical equipment, emergency clothing assistance, food pantry and community kitchen referral assistance. Includes free training in budgeting, career assistance, English for Spanish speakers, nutrition.
$0 spent0% of program spendingHelp local seniors face a lonely Christmas by providing holiday meals and human contact. The organization provides senior food baskets, families food baskets, toys, and provide programs for teens and families in need.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,780,280.
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 $1.3M to $1.7M (+26%).
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 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Hand Up Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Miranda Bentley
Executive Director
Board chair
Jerry Adair
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $16k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $699k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Gordon County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Hand Up Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Hand Up Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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 Up Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Up Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 76% · 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of Hand Up Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
93% of Hand Up Inc'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Up Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Hand Up Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $625k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$625k
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 Up Inc
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Up Inc: 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 Up Inc?
- Hand Up Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,695 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($108,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Hand Up Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $173,695 in grants to Hand Up Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hand Up Inc?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $108,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hand Up Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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