South Carolina · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $901k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $298k
- Net assets
- $472k
What Helping Hands Ministries of the Woodruff Area Inc does
Mission
The organization provides financial help to needy individuals requiring assistance with food, utilities, prescriptions, and rent payments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To provide emergency assistance to individuals and families in economic distress in the form of food, shelter, clothing, utilities, kerosene, and prescriptions.
$776,831 spent93% of program spendingTo provide emergency assistance to individuals and families in economic distress in the form of food, shelter, clothing, utilities, kerosene, and prescriptions.
$58,596 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $835,427.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $285k to $472k (+65%).
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC's revenue grew 37% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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.
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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 2019–2024), 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