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HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC

HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,130 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($67,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$414k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$101k
Net assets
$167k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Helping Hands Foundation of Surry County Inc does

Mission

To provide shelter, food, and resources to those in need.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assisted 10,227 individuals with medication, food, and clothing

    $357,000 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $357,000.

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 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($39k)2018 Revenue 217 ($134k) Expenses 233 ($121k) Net assets 131 ($52k)2019 Revenue 121 ($75k) Expenses 141 ($73k) Net assets 136 ($53k)2020 Revenue 412 ($254k) Expenses 464 ($242k) Net assets 166 ($65k)2021 Revenue 210 ($129k) Expenses 259 ($135k) Net assets 151 ($59k)2022 Revenue 729 ($450k) Expenses 609 ($318k) Net assets 487 ($192k)2023 Revenue 453 ($279k) Expenses 610 ($318k) Net assets 388 ($153k)2024 Revenue 603 ($372k) Expenses 758 ($396k) Net assets 329 ($129k)2025 Revenue 671 ($414k) Expenses 721 ($376k) Net assets 425 ($167k)
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Revenue (671)Expenses (721)Net assets (425)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 2021 to 2022, from $104k to $192k (+84%).

$98k
$107k
$105k
$114k
$104k
$192k
$153k
$129k
$167k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 23% · 2023 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$12k
’18
$2k
’19
$12k
’20
−$6k
’21
$132k
’22
−$39k
’23
−$23k
’24
$38k
’25
0.9
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

Jana Elliott

Executive director

Board chair

Rondale Ratcliff

Executive chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20202022202320242025
Listed2824232319
Joined··+6+0+4
No longer listed··708
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $250 → $75k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY 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 FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

67%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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

72% of HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

IN
NE
NC
TX

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

’18
’21
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $347 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

89%

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 FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC?
HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,130 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($67,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $101,130 in grants to HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC?
THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION OF SURRY COUNTY INC find more funders?
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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 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