Washington · Nonprofit
HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK
HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK (Washington) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,023 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($440,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Helping Hands Food Bank does
Mission
Helping hands purpose is to provide food for needy families in skagit county we hand out food though our weekly distribution, backpack program, mobile food and emergency food programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Weekly food distribution: helping hands distributed nutritious food to skagit county. In 2023 there were 270,000 visits to the 7 distribution locations of over 2 million pounds of food. Helping hands has 300 volunteers that have given 85,000 hours in 2023 to sort produce, deliver groceries to seniors and children, hand out food at food distribution and check in client numbers.
$5,371,461 spent99% of program spendingThe solutions program works on getting people from surviving to thriving. They connect participants with resources that are not food. The example of that is working with seniors to apply for the senior exemption for their property taxes, getting work boots for people to go to work, signed up for classes at goodwills, signed up for snap and they do street outreach activities to the unhoused.
$44,839 spent1% of program spendingKids backpack program:chow is a program that delivers 5 meals a week to over 800 kids a week to keep them nourished over the weekend. Parents sign themselves up for the program and volunteers deliver the weekly bags.
$5,361 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,421,661.
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.
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 $2.3M to $3.1M (+31%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 100% · 2018 25% · 2019 1% · 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Rebecca Skrinde
Executive director
Board chair
John Janicki
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $27k → $203k.
9 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 HANDS FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 HANDS FOOD BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
75% 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 HANDS FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 57% · 2019 93% · 2020 22% · 2021 33% · 2022 58% · 2023 49% — 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
38% of HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
54% of HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK'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 $577k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $665k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK: 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 HANDS FOOD BANK?
- HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK (Washington) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,023 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($440,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,242,023 in grants to HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $440,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44 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