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HELPING HAND HOUSE

HELPING HAND HOUSE (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,279,236 to it, the largest being BUILDING CHANGES ($174,812). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$1.7M
21/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Helping Hand House does

Mission

Helping Hand House provides emergency shelter and housing solutions for families in our community, ending their crisis of homelessness.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Rapid re-housing serves pierce county families in rented homes throughout pierce county. We provide rent and other financial assistance from six months to a year with limited case management. In 2025, 85 families were served.

    $1,312,903 spentof which $988,585 as grants$243,100 earned by the program
    48% of program spending
  2. Hhh's homeless prevention program in partnership with local pierce county school districts mckinney vento liaisons provides families with tailored services and assistance to at-risk of homelessness families to prevent a homeless episode. In 2025, 85 families were served.

    $624,266 spentof which $450,347 as grants
    23% of program spending
  3. Hhh's permanent supportive housing program helps chronically homeless families in which a family member has a permanent disability. Unable to fully-support the entire cost of housing, the client family pays a portion of their monthly income toward rent. Additional support received is focused on enhancing the family's career potential with the goal of assisting the family to attain as much self-sufficiency as possible. In 2025, 11 families were served.

    $317,908 spentof which $20,885 as grants
    12% of program spending
  4. Other services include emergency shelter, open heart ministries and affordable housing assistance.

    $485,540 spentof which $197,947 as grants
    18% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,740,617.

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 ($747k) Expenses 100 ($763k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 134 ($999k) Expenses 129 ($984k) Net assets 95 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 167 ($1.3M) Expenses 186 ($1.4M) Net assets 82 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 591 ($4.4M) Expenses 513 ($3.9M) Net assets 121 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 2596 ($19M) Expenses 2530 ($19M) Net assets 131 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 1809 ($14M) Expenses 1808 ($14M) Net assets 109 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 785 ($5.9M) Expenses 802 ($6.1M) Net assets 89 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 319 ($2.4M) Expenses 289 ($2.2M) Net assets 103 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 385 ($2.9M) Expenses 374 ($2.9M) Net assets 136 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (385)Expenses (374)Net assets (136)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $2.7M (+48%).

$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.8M
$2.7M
$1.9M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.8M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 31% · 2019 46% · 2020 84% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 89% · 2024 69% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of HELPING HAND HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’17
$15k
’18
−$169k
’19
$497k
’20
$84k
’21
−$278k
’22
−$256k
’23
$173k
’24
$22k
’25
0.6
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

Jenn Sankwhich

CEO

Board chair

Tyler Hobbs

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed777768977
Joined·+0+1+1+0+2+2+1+1
No longer listed·01110131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $93k.

5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 31 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

HELPING HAND HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

47% 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 HOUSE.

14%
largest funder
38%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 35% · 2019 45% · 2020 47% · 2021 63% · 2022 50% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

39% of HELPING HAND HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

70% of HELPING HAND HOUSE's grant income comes from Washington funders.

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MN
MA
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OH
CA
MO
TX

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

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k 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 HOUSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
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

WA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELPING HAND HOUSE: 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 HOUSE?
HELPING HAND HOUSE (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,279,236 to it, the largest being BUILDING CHANGES ($174,812). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HELPING HAND HOUSE have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,279,236 in grants to HELPING HAND HOUSE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HELPING HAND HOUSE?
BUILDING CHANGES is the largest funder on record, with $174,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HELPING HAND HOUSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing