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Hands Up Preschool Inc

Hands Up Preschool Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $265,812 to it, the largest being WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($177,102). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$354k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$266k
Net assets
$382k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Hands Up Preschool Inc does

Mission

Hands up is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. The mission of this corporation is educating 3 and 4 year old children in the "at risk" community. Incorporating parents into the educational process equipping both children and parents for lifetime learning.

    $418,534 spent$37,811 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $418,534.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($609k) Expenses 100 ($491k) Net assets 100 ($89k)2018 Revenue 55 ($336k) Expenses 84 ($411k) Net assets 15 ($14k)2019 Revenue 70 ($425k) Expenses 90 ($442k) Net assets -4 ($-3199)2020 Revenue 81 ($495k) Expenses 93 ($455k) Net assets 42 ($37k)2021 Revenue 91 ($553k) Expenses 79 ($389k) Net assets 213 ($190k)2022 Revenue 75 ($459k) Expenses 81 ($398k) Net assets 283 ($253k)2023 Revenue 63 ($382k) Expenses 52 ($254k) Net assets 429 ($383k)2024 Revenue 95 ($576k) Expenses 83 ($406k) Net assets 619 ($553k)2025 Revenue 49 ($298k) Expenses 82 ($405k) Net assets 497 ($444k)2026 Revenue 58 ($354k) Expenses 85 ($419k) Net assets 428 ($382k)
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Revenue (58)Expenses (85)Net assets (428)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $383k to $553k (+44%).

$103k
$25k
$18k
$108k
$200k
$253k
$383k
$553k
$447k
$382k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 63% · 2021 64% · 2022 27% · 2023 88% · 2024 50% · 2025 74% · 2026 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of Hands Up Preschool Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$118k
’17
−$76k
’18
−$17k
’19
$40k
’20
$163k
’21
$61k
’22
$128k
’23
$170k
’24
−$107k
’25
−$65k
’26
0.5
months of
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.

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Listed15159101088877
Joined·+0+4+5+2+2+0+6+2+0
No longer listed·0104240630
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $16.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Up Preschool 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Hands Up Preschool Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 Up Preschool Inc.

67%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% · 2019 55% · 2020 42% · 2021 78% · 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

76% of Hands Up Preschool Inc'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 $63k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Hands Up Preschool Inc's revenue fell 42% between 2017 and 2026.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

TN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hands Up Preschool 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 Up Preschool Inc?
Hands Up Preschool Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $265,812 to it, the largest being WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($177,102). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Hands Up Preschool Inc have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $265,812 in grants to Hands Up Preschool Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Hands Up Preschool Inc?
WEST TN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $177,102 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Hands Up Preschool Inc 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 7 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