California · Nonprofit
HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA
HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,966 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($169,754). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $951k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $562k
- Net assets
- $688k
What Hands at Work in Africa USA does
Mission
Through relationship with local churches in Africa, challenge, encourage, develop and support the ministry of servanthood among those in need in their community through best practice community intervention models. Hands at Work in Africa USA, believes that the biblical mandate to care for the dying, widows and orphans is not only for the local church in Africa, but also elsewhere, and Hands at Work in Africa USA will challenge churches outside Africa to fulfill their mandate.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Three Essential Services: Food, Education and Basic Health Care In 2023, Hands at Work provided holistic care for 1,625 orphaned and vulnerable children by supporting the efforts of local community-based volunteers. These Care Workers conduct home visits and provide three Essential Services -- food security, education and basic health care -- to children in the countries of Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland).
$363,541 spent$473,054 earned by the program38% of program spendingProject Support: Funds were used for building schools, toilets and kitchens; maintaining and repairing existing infrastructure; start-up costs for income generating activities like community gardens; conducting outreach; facilitating leadership development training and mentoring activities for local community based volunteers in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland).
$408,134 spent$206,382 earned by the program43% of program spendingVolunteer Stipend/Support To provide living expenses and support for long-term volunteers serving in Africa.
$161,726 spent$177,884 earned by the program17% of program spendingTeam visits to local communities.
$14,970 spent$15,625 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $948,371.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.2M to $653k (−46%).
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.
98% of HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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.
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
Suzette Lee
CEO
Board chair
FR Jeff Locke
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $31k.
10 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA’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
HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
99% 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 HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 71% · 2019 50% · 2020 47% · 2021 75% · 2022 57% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
95% of HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $532k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $562k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,527 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA: 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 HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA?
- HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,966 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($169,754). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $561,966 in grants to HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $169,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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