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HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC

HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,583 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($93,666). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$469k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$133k
Net assets
$778k
6/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Helping Hands for Animals Inc does

Mission

Helping Hands for Animals is a mostly volunteer no-kill organization established in 1993 to address the pet overpopulation problem by implementing a reduced rate spay neuter program and to promote education and awareness of prominent animal issues.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Helping Hands for Animals spay neuter clinic performed surgeries on 5383 cats in 2024 for which all revenue and expenses are applicable. Approximately 350 cats were treated for various medical conditions throughout 2024.

    $248,645 spentof which $120,821 as grants$433,548 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $248,645.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($187k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets 100 ($269k)2022 Revenue 155 ($291k) Expenses 116 ($167k) Net assets 146 ($393k)2023 Revenue 179 ($334k) Expenses 119 ($171k) Net assets 207 ($557k)2024 Revenue 251 ($469k) Expenses 174 ($249k) Net assets 289 ($778k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (251)Expenses (174)Net assets (289)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 $557k to $778k (+40%).

$269k
$393k
$557k
$778k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

26% of HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’21
$124k
’22
$164k
’23
$221k
’24
2.2
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.

202220232024
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $14k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 FOR ANIMALS 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

HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 FOR ANIMALS INC.

71%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 71% · 2021 74% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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

71% of HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS 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 $38k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states.

MI
PA
TX
FL

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

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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

HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS 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.

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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

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC?
HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,583 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($93,666). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $132,583 in grants to HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC?
LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $93,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2024), 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