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Helping Hand Developmental Center

Helping Hand Developmental Center (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,166 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($205,490). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$317k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$575k
Net assets
$0
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Helping Hand Developmental Center does

Mission

To provide quality child development services to all children in Henderson County with a unique committment to serve those who are physically, emotionally & educationally challenged so that they may realize their potential.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Helping Hand provided individualized services for Henderson County children from three to five years of age who have an extensive range of physical and emotional needs. HHDC served approximately 30 children with 57% of those children having special needs. Helping Hand closed as of 1/31/2024 due to inadequate state funding and inablilty to hire qualified staff.

    $364,410 spent$41,557 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $364,410.

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 ($859k) Expenses 100 ($854k) Net assets 100 ($100k)2018 Revenue 98 ($845k) Expenses 101 ($863k) Net assets 83 ($83k)2019 Revenue 89 ($767k) Expenses 94 ($800k) Net assets 49 ($49k)2020 Revenue 108 ($932k) Expenses 92 ($788k) Net assets 197 ($197k)2021 Revenue 79 ($679k) Expenses 78 ($667k) Net assets 210 ($210k)2022 Revenue 93 ($797k) Expenses 90 ($770k) Net assets 237 ($236k)2023 Revenue 79 ($678k) Expenses 94 ($802k) Net assets 116 ($115k)2024 Revenue 37 ($317k) Expenses 51 ($432k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (37)Expenses (51)Net assets (0)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 2019 to 2020, from $56k to $198k (+255%).

$101k
$84k
$56k
$198k
$222k
$238k
$115k
$0
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2018 64% · 2019 63% · 2020 56% · 2021 81% · 2022 73% · 2023 69% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of Helping Hand Developmental Center’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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$18k
’18
−$33k
’19
$144k
’20
$11k
’21
$27k
’22
−$124k
’23
−$115k
’24
1.4
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.

Chief executive

Susan Deans

Executive Director (7/1/23 - 10/13/23)

Board chair

Elizabeth Holbert

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed65785577
Joined·+1+2+1+2+0+2+2
No longer listed·2005002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $31k → $128k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Helping Hand Developmental Center’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

Helping Hand Developmental Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 Helping Hand Developmental Center.

36%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 43% · 2019 66% · 2020 51% · 2021 69% · 2022 61% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.

“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

100% of Helping Hand Developmental Center's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Helping Hand Developmental Center's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−36% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Helping Hand Developmental Center

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Helping Hand Developmental Center: 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 Helping Hand Developmental Center?
Helping Hand Developmental Center (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,166 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($205,490). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Helping Hand Developmental Center have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $575,166 in grants to Helping Hand Developmental Center, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Helping Hand Developmental Center?
DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $205,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Helping Hand Developmental Center 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 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