Alabama · Nonprofit
HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC
HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,734 to it, the largest being FLEET ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $106k
- Net assets
- $447k
What Helping Hands for Gand Inc does
Mission
Helping hands for gand, inc. Was formed to promote and increase community awareness of gatad2b-associated neurodevelopmental disorder (gand) and the need for research and development of medical treatments for individuals with gand through the dissemination of information to the general public, to raise funds to support such activities, and to make grants, loans or other distributions for any of the purposes described in section 170(c)(1) or (2)(b) of the internal revenue code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Online support for gand site research - 9,022 unique visitors and 16,046 page views in 2025.
$2,500 spent100% of program spendingHelping hands for gand hosted the 2025 gand online conference on september 27, 2025. Approximately 100 attendees participated in sessions covering brain health and development, advocacy and special education, and the development and upcoming launch of the gand patient registry. Participants also heard from dr. Tyler pierson, md, phd, and dr. Juan young, phd, both leading gand researchers, who gave overviews of gand, updated the attendees on their research research, and answered questions from the audience. The conference ended with a breakout session for families to connect around a topic of shared interest.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $271k to $346k (+28%).
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.
97% of HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $23k → $11k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 GAND 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 GAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 GAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 56% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HELPING HANDS FOR GAND 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC: 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 FOR GAND INC?
- HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,734 to it, the largest being FLEET ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $105,734 in grants to HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC?
- FLEET ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING HANDS FOR GAND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2019–2025), 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