Loading…
Loading…
Alabama · Nonprofit
HANDS ON BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) is funded by 6 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $425,967 in grants to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($361,433). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HANDS ON BIRMINGHAM INC has grown faster than half of the 11,157 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,157 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
100% of HANDS ON BIRMINGHAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (59% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$9k from 3 funders in 2023, up from $374k and 2 in 2018.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 BIRMINGHAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
HANDS ON BIRMINGHAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 68% · 2022 99% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
HANDS ON BIRMINGHAM INC is locally rooted: 95% of its grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
100% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Part of a family of 4 related entities
Every figure is 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 6funders 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. view filing