Michigan · Nonprofit
Hands Extended Loving People
Hands Extended Loving People (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $696,474 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ($331,458). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Hands Extended Loving People runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Mason Countylocal
- Athens Thrift Store Incportfolio match
- United Food Force Incportfolio match
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.
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.
92% of Hands Extended Loving People’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $66k → $66k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 Extended Loving People’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 Extended Loving People leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Extended Loving People.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 76% · 2019 79% · 2020 86% · 2021 54% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
62% of Hands Extended Loving People'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 $265k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $431k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Mason CountylocalMI · funds 10 organizations near you
- Athens Thrift Store Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmers Electric Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Lansing Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Food Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tvec Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farm Share Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Texas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Hands Extended Loving People
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hands Extended Loving People: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Hands Extended Loving People?
- Hands Extended Loving People (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $696,474 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ($331,458). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Hands Extended Loving People have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $696,474 in grants to Hands Extended Loving People, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hands Extended Loving People?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $331,458 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hands Extended Loving People find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing