Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HANDS ON NATURE INC
HANDS ON NATURE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,400 to it, the largest being MENTOR CHARITABLE FUND INC ($10,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $250k
What Hands on Nature Inc does
Mission
Hands on Nature is an educational, outdoor nature program available to students from preschool to high school, located in Berlin, Massachusetts. Our mission at Hands on Nature is to connect children to the natural world through educational hands on experiences. We provide a place for children to explore, enjoy, and directly experience the beauty of the natural world. We believe children learn best in an outdoor classroom, getting their hands dirty and experiencing nature's wonders firsthand.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Summer Nature Program - outdoor educational nature programs which teach children about our local plants and animals. We served 172 children in 2025.
$3,101 spent65% of program spendingSchool Programs - we provide enrichment programs in schools in central Massachusetts. We serve grades K-5th in several local towns, doing mostly earthworm, bird and insect programs for each classroom or in front of a large assembly. We served approximately 630 students in 2025.
$401 spent8% of program spendingLibrary Programs - programs open to the public, educating children and their families on our local plants and animal species. We served approximately 720 students in 2025.
$1,275 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,777.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $194k to $250k (+29%).
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.
11% of HANDS ON NATURE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Donna Stone
Chair, Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of HANDS ON NATURE INC’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 ON NATURE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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.
Against its field
HANDS ON NATURE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HANDS ON NATURE INC
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 Massachusetts
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HANDS ON NATURE INC: 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 NATURE INC?
- HANDS ON NATURE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,400 to it, the largest being MENTOR CHARITABLE FUND INC ($10,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HANDS ON NATURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,400 in grants to HANDS ON NATURE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS ON NATURE INC?
- MENTOR CHARITABLE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS ON NATURE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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