Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC
HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,502 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Handshouse Studio Inc does
Programs
Notre dame project- a hands-on project to reconstruct hand-hewn wooden trusses modeled after those that once supported the roof of the notre dame de paris cathedral.
$5,688 spentSynagogue project - building a digital archive/virtual tour of the gwozdziec synagoguge project, to make the project research accessible to the general public.
$635 spentToys for animals - project series that connects new communities through design/build workshops focused on enriching the wellbeing of animals in zoos and sanctuaries.
$2,932 spentCary wolinsky story fund - designed to support the works of capturing and telling stories that seek to illuminate history, understand science and perpetuate the arts.
$23,750 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2021 to 2022, from $166k to $92k (−45%).
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 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
79% of HANDSHOUSE STUDIO 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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
HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$17k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HANDSHOUSE STUDIO 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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC?
- HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,502 to it, the largest being THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $48,502 in grants to HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDSHOUSE STUDIO INC?
- THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDSHOUSE STUDIO 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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