South Carolina · Nonprofit
HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC
HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,562,659 to it, the largest being FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC ($609,616). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Helping Hands of Georgetown Inc does
Mission
Helping hands of georgetown, inc. Was established in 1989 and operates as an ecumenical ministry whose mission is to help residents of georgetown county who are experiencing poverty and crisis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Helping hands provides emergency cash assistance for utilities including electricity, water, sewer and kerosene. Helping hands youth empowerment program provides guidance to students in high school while promoting stability and health in their lives.
$706,434 spentof which $121,981 as grants62% of program spendingHelping hands provides non-cash assistance such as food and infant/toddler supplies. We provide dental care including evaluations, cleanings, extractions and basic restorative care to individuals through a combination of paid and volunteer dentists.
$433,366 spentof which $433,366 as grants38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,139,800.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+20%).
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 1% · 2021 16% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Brendon Barber
Executive director
Board chair
Rick Danser
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $115k → $535k.
15 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 OF GEORGETOWN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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 OF GEORGETOWN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
85% 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 OF GEORGETOWN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 21% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 22% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN 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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 OF GEORGETOWN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 OF GEORGETOWN 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 OF GEORGETOWN INC?
- HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,562,659 to it, the largest being FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC ($609,616). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $2,562,659 in grants to HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC?
- FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC is the largest funder on record, with $609,616 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 45 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