Florida · Nonprofit
HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA
HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,548 to it, the largest being United Way of Central Florida Inc ($78,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $183k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Hands of Hope America does
Mission
Hands of Hope America is a nonprofit organization committed to equipping empowering and restoring disenfranchised individuals families and children in the Four Corners region of Central Florida including Lake Polk Osceola and Orange Counties. The organization provides accessible culturally sensitive and evidence-based services that address food insecurity financial instability mental health needs education and workforce development. Through a holistic community-centered approach Hands of Hope America works to strengthen families and promote long-term self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provides emergency and bi-weekly food distribution to families experiencing food insecurity. The program includes partnerships with local food banks and integrates case management to connect clients with additional resources.
$68,912 spent39% of program spendingCommunity Efforts includes seasonal programs such as back-to-school drives holiday food distributions and community resource events serving thousands of families annually.
$108,890 spent61% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $177,802.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $15k to $34k (+135%).
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: 2023 85% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $68k → $46k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 OF HOPE AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 OF HOPE AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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.
Against its field
HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA has grown faster than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $245k on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $245k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $79
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 HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA: 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 OF HOPE AMERICA?
- HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,548 to it, the largest being United Way of Central Florida Inc ($78,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $182,548 in grants to HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA?
- United Way of Central Florida Inc is the largest funder on record, with $78,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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