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HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC

HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,877 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($107,127). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$901k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$298k
Grants received
$472k
Net assets
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%

Against its field

HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC's revenue grew 37% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($659k) Expenses 100 ($681k) Net assets 100 ($235k)2020 Revenue 116 ($767k) Expenses 113 ($771k) Net assets 102 ($239k)2021 Revenue 108 ($713k) Expenses 97 ($662k) Net assets 123 ($290k)2022 Revenue 105 ($693k) Expenses 107 ($727k) Net assets 110 ($258k)2023 Revenue 132 ($869k) Expenses 129 ($879k) Net assets 123 ($289k)2024 Revenue 137 ($901k) Expenses 131 ($893k) Net assets 200 ($472k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (137)Expenses (131)Net assets (200)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 31% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 33% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
19
$5k
20
$51k
21
$35k
22
$10k
23
$8k
24
2.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $118k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)55% 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 MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA 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 MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC.

36%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 62% · 2020 59% · 2021 97% · 2022 73% · 2023 78%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

55% of HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA 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 $135k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from South Carolina funders.

SC
TX

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

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South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In South Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA 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 MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC?
HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,877 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($107,127). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $297,877 in grants to HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC?
Spartanburg County Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $107,127 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing