North Carolina · Nonprofit
HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY
HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $829,370 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($533,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $915k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $829k
- Net assets
- $879k
What Hands on - a Child's Gallery does
Mission
The organization believes our community's future is determined by the priority it places on its children. The organization is established to operate an establishment, open to the public and administered in the public interest, for the purpose of educating young children experientially in a nurturing, family-oriented environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2023 the museum provided special educational children's programs for school groups, summer camps, community residents and out of town visitors. The organization also provided educational opportunities through its resident educational exhibits in the museum. The museum served 60,000 children and adults throughout western nc during the 2023 calendar year through interactive stem, art and cultural learning experiences.
$673,872 spent$357,191 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $673,872.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $3.1M (+98%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 16% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $150k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY’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 ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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: 2017 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 32% · 2021 42% · 2022 93% · 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k 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 ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY: 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 ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY?
- HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $829,370 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($533,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $829,370 in grants to HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $533,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS ON - A CHILD'S GALLERY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 12 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