California · Nonprofit
Hands for an African Child Inc
Hands for an African Child Inc (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,350,806 to it, the largest being The Hirani Family Foundation ($696,175). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Hands for an African Child Inc does
Mission
Provide parentless African children with homes having both a mother and a father, and prepare them to lead a new educated and self-reliant generation.We envision a world with healthy, educated, self-reliant, and God-centered families led by both a mother and a father
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Listed below are the significant accomplishments made in 2023. We have 54 orphaned children as of Dec. 2023, after having received our first 13 orphaned children in Aug. 2022. In 2022 we had four sets of parents (a father & mother) raising their own children and 3-4 orphans per family. We now have eight sets of parents with 16 biological children and 4-10 orphans per family. These parents receive ongoing training and weekly encouragement and support so they can thrive with the demands of raising these children. We had four completed homes in 2022. We now have 12 completed houses, in anticipation of adding more parents and orphans in 2024. With six bedrooms, three bathrooms and a large family room/dining area per house, we have room to accommodate up to 16 orphans and 4 biological children per home. The Nuri Primary School was completed in Sept., 2023. This 8-classroom elementary school will be able to hold 280 students at capacity. In addition to our children, some impoverished children (orphans living with grandparents/aunts/uncles and children of widows) in the surrounding neighborhood will be invited to attend the school. About one-third of Ugandan children do not attend…
$1,097,862 spent$1,078,391 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,097,862.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $166k to $1.2M (+640%).
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 for an African Child Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $160k → $256k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 for an African Child Inc’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 for an African Child Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 94% · 2020 71% · 2021 52% · 2022 71% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of Hands for an African Child Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 70% 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
98% of Hands for an African Child Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k 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
Hands for an African Child Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Hands for an African Child 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hands for an African Child 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 Hands for an African Child Inc?
- Hands for an African Child Inc (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,350,806 to it, the largest being The Hirani Family Foundation ($696,175). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hands for an African Child Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,350,806 in grants to Hands for an African Child Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hands for an African Child Inc?
- The Hirani Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $696,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hands for an African Child Inc 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 10 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