Tennessee · Nonprofit
HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES
HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,469 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($133,768). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $177k
- Net assets
- $-83201
What HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES does
Mission
HANDS of MOTHERS (formerly Manos de Madres) is dedicated to carving pathways out of poverty and improving the lives of vulnerable women and their families through income generation initiatives founded upon the principles of cooperation, creativity, fair trade and sustainability. Manos works exclusively with women and young adults in existing or emerging cooperatives to develop capacity through financial, technical and business training supports as well as assistance in product development, production, marketing and sales. HANDS OF MOTHERS strives to ensure that fair trade standards are maintained and that food, security, health, and education objectives are furthered.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
2023 UPDATE--YEP: Youth Empowerment Program to equip recent high school graduates with professional and life skills. Goals are to enhance their employability and transform them into future peer trainers. Generously funded by the US Embassy in collaboration with the US nonprofit Photo Start--ELEP: English Language Enrichment Program designed to elevate English skills among students in our program and enhance their overall academic performance.--SEX EDUCATION-Conducted a 2-day Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights training program for all summer school students in conjunction with the Rwandan nonprofit GROWN TO HELP. Intergration of sex education in the summer school program to prevent early pregnancies and provide crucial knowledge on sexual and reproductive health.--BOARDING PROGRAM-47 high risk teen children of sex workers attended boarding high school. This fully funded initiative aims to protect them from the trauma, and physical and sexual abuse commonly faced in their mother's line of work.--LIBRARY-Grew from 250 TO 600 books- This free resource serves as a crucial tool to strengthen English language skills among our students.--ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTSLG-Savings and Lending…
$79,106 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $79,106.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $68k to $104k (+53%).
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.
99% of HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES’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. 4 of the last 8 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
Lane Moten
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $20k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES’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 OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
92% of HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $162k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES?
- HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,469 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($133,768). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $177,469 in grants to HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $133,768 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS OF MOTHERS formerly MANOS de MADRES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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