Kentucky · Nonprofit
Hands of Kindness
Hands of Kindness (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $29,186 to it, the largest being Leonard A Loesch Charitable Trust ($29,186). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Hands of Kindness's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,300 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
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.
- Norton Healthcare Incshared funders
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio match
- United Food Force Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of Hands of Kindness’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Hands of Kindness's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Norton Healthcare Incshared fundersKY · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sumner Community Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Food Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Harvest Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollerbachs Has Heartportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Athens Thrift Store Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farm Share Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yuba-Sutter-Colusa United Wayportfolio 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 of Kindness
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 of Kindness: 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 of Kindness?
- Hands of Kindness (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $29,186 to it, the largest being Leonard A Loesch Charitable Trust ($29,186). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hands of Kindness have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $29,186 in grants to Hands of Kindness, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hands of Kindness?
- Leonard A Loesch Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $29,186 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hands of Kindness find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 1funders 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